Dream Interpretation (English) (English)

Author: Freud
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Publish Date: 1998-04-01
Features: Although Freud was initially only a psychoanalyst, his influence far exceeded the professional academic field, becoming one of the few figures with global fame in the 20th century. On one hand, he received both benevolent and hostile criticism and accusations from all over the world and across different fields. On the other hand, as time went by, he gained more understanding, praise, higher evaluation, and status. Some ranked Freud alongside Einstein and Copernicus as the most influential figures of the 20th century, while others marked the emergence of Freudian theory as a dividing point in the history of human cognition. In this book, Freud emphasized on one hand that dreams are expressions of unconscious desires, but on the other hand, he pointed out that this expression is not reckless or straightforward but rather modified and transformed. Furthermore, Freud provided a three-dimensional understanding of dreams and, through the analysis of numerous dream examples, explored how dreams modify desires, which is known as the "work of dreams."