Title: Freud's private mini‐monograph on his own dreams: A contribution to the celebration of the centenary of the interpretation of dreams
Abstract: A virtually unknown brief commentary by Freud on the characteristics of his own dreams is described and discussed. Freud's mini‐monograph, discovered after some 80 years, has autobiographical, theoretical and organisational significance in the enigmatic context of the early development of psychoanalysis. Found among papers of Alfred Adler, this extraordinary document adds to our knowledge of psychoanalytic history, including the significance of dreams in the evolution of psychoanalytic thought. Freud's commentary permitted the identification of a particular dream as his own. This dream had been presented in anonymity to the fledgling Vienna Psychoanalytic Society for interpretation. The dream was later inserted, again anonymously, into The Interpretation of Dreams with Freud's own remarkable pre‐oedipal interpretation. Freud's conflicted relationships with Adler and Jung are considered in historical context.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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