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the interpretation of dreams a collector s edition featuring original illustrations a modernized translation

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What this book knows

Dreams are disguised wish-fulfillments whose latent content, rooted in childhood desire and the unconscious, can be decoded through systematic interpretation.

Sex: Primary
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Absent

desiremind-and-cognitionself-and-identity

desire

It hath already been the lot of many men in dreams to think themselves partners of their mother's bed—Jocasta dismissing what Freud reclaims as the Oedipus core.
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Falling in love with one parent and hating the other contributes significantly to the complex web of psychic impulses formed during childhood.
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'Go hang yourself' translates to 'Get an erection, no matter the cost'—repressed sexual desire surfacing in alarming, veiled form.
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mind-and-cognition

The dream is always a wish fulfillment because it is a product of the unconscious, which operates solely for the purpose of fulfilling wishes.
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We approach this apparatus as we might a compound microscope—psychic locality represents a point where one element of a mental image comes into being.
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self-and-identity

What is truly central in dream thoughts may not appear in content at all—dreams seem 'eccentric,' organized around elements peripheral to the core.
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