Description

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Freud's seminal work helped shaped the cultural landscape of the world today. Now in a digestible, pocket format for the modern reader.

The Interpretation of Dreams is an essential work of psychological and cultural heritage and probably the most important of Freud’s impressive output. Published in 1899 but revised by Freud himself many times, it outlines his theories on the unconscious and dream symbolism. Though largely superseded by subsequent developments and research, it retains its place as a hugely influential and significant opus. This new compact edition is abridged by expert Dr Richard Stevens. It uses A.A. Brill’s 1913 translation of the third edition, with an introduction by Dr Stevens, who discusses the context, reception, influence, importance and merits or otherwise of Freud’s text and Brill’s translation.

The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world, with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to be both accessible and informative.

About the Author

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Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) set up in private clinical practice in treating ‘nervous disorders’ and would go on to develop techniques associated with psychoanalysis, as well as his famous theories on the unconscious, the human psyche, dreams and sexuality leading to influential works such as The Interpretation of Dreams and The Ego and the Id.

Richard Stevens was previously Head of Psychology at the Open University. He has been Chair of the Association for Humanistic Psychology in Britain and helped to found the Consciousness and Experiential Section of the British Psychological Society. His numerous publications include the books Freud and Psychoanalysis and Understanding the Self.