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The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

20 chapters, about 179,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 500 words
2. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION 500 words
3. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 400 words
4. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE 200 words
5. THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS 28,000 words
6. THE ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE DREAM 2,400 words
7. DREAM OF JULY 23–24, 1895 500 words
8. ANALYSIS 6,900 words
9. IV DISTORTION IN DREAMS 8,600 words
10. V THE MATERIAL AND SOURCES OF DREAMS 12,500 words
11. II. A second dream requires a longer preliminary statement: 25,700 words
12. VI THE DREAM-WORK 3,000 words
13. THE FAIR ONE. 22,500 words
14. IV. The following is another absurd dream about a dead father: 3,200 words
15. III. Here is a third example from my own experience: 18,800 words
16. VII THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE DREAM ACTIVITIES 32,800 words
17. VIII LITERARY INDEX 800 words
18. PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERATURE OF DREAMS 800 words
19. INDEX 4,500 words
20. Act. i. sc. 2. Translated by George Somers Clark. 6,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Absurdity
• Dream
• Interpretation (logic)
• Neologism
• Psychology
• Psychosis

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