The Interpretation of Dreams [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Freud, Sigmund

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1999

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As new condition textured black boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Introduction by Ritchie Robertson; Note on the Text by Ritchie Robertson; Note on the Translation by Joyce Crick; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Sigmund Freud; Explanatory Notes; Index of Dreams; and General Index. Illustrated with diagrams. A new translation by Joyce Crick based on the original text. First edition, first printing of the Oxford University Press edition of The Interpretation of Dreams. "One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin's Origin of the Species, revolutionized our understanding of human nature. Now this groundbreaking new translation - the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899 - brings us a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's masterpiece. The first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams is much shorter than its subsequent editions; each time the text was reissued, from 1909 onwards, Freud added to it. The most significant, and in many ways the most unfortunate addition, is a 50-page section devoted to the kind of mechanical reading of dream symbolism - long objects equal male genitalia, etc. - that has gained popular currency and partially obscured Freud's more profound insights into dreams. In the original version presented here, Freud's emphasis falls more clearly on the use of words in dreams and on the difficulty of deciphering them. Without the strata of later additions, readers will find here a clearer development of Freud's central ideas - of dream as wish fulfillment, of the dream's manifest and latent content, of the retelling of dreams as a continuation of the dreamwork, and much more. Joyce Crick's translation is lighter and faster-moving than previous versions, enhancing the sense of dialogue with the reader, one of Freud's syllogistic strengths, and allowing us to follow Freud's theory as it evolved through difficult cases, apparently intractable counter-examples, and fascinating analyses of Freud's own dreams. The restoration of Freud's classic is a major event, giving us in a sense a new work by one of this century's most startling, original, and influential thinkers." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. "It contains, even according to my present-day judgment, the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make. Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." - Freud, writing about The Interpretation of Dreams. Seller Inventory # 005862

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Interpretation of Dreams [FIRST EDITION,...

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition