Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of "wish fulfillment" - attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past (later in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud would discuss dreams which do not appear to be wish-fulfillment). Because the information in the unconscious is in an unruly and often disturbing form, a "censor" in the preconscious will not allow it to pass unaltered into the conscious. During dreams, the preconscious is more lax in this duty than in waking hours, but is still attentive: as such, the...

This, one of Freud's most important works, delves deeper into his idea of the subconscious and the things we are told by it through our dreams.

Do dreams have meaning? Do they disguise our desires? What is the function of a dream? Sigmund Freud answers all of these questions and more in this classic dream psychology manual. This book is a must have for not only psychology students, but also teachers and instructors too. After reading this book you'll find yourself looking at dreams differently. "The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still claim full...

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung (though post-dated as 1900 by the publisher). The publication inaugurated the theory of Freudian dream analysis, which activity Freud famously described as "the royal road to the understanding of unconscious mental processes."

An exploration of Freud's theories on the interpretation of dreams.

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