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From amazon.com:

Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once.

Sending this to cinnycat. Enjoy!

Thanks so much for sending this book to me! And the Carebears bookmark! I'm not sure if you just left it in the book on mistake or you intentionally sent it to me, but what a coincidence it was! I love the Carebears and all things 80's! thanks!

I read most of this but I realized it was pretty pointless since the most important ideas are already common knowledge if you happen to have an interest in dreams. Everything that wasn't already common knowledge doesn't make sense to me. The dream examples were not strong enough to support his theories. With most of the examples, I felt like he would lose a lot of future readers since a lot of the main components of the dreams aren't around today. The world is much different now than it was in the 1800's. Otherwise, his psychology is pretty much timeless. But I definitely do not think that every single dream means something sexual. There are other things that people think/worry about! I will give Freud credit for establishing a lot of psychology (even though he was pretty crazy himself). This was probably all the Freud I will ever read, since I am mainly interested in dream interpretation.

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Sent this to the winner of my '5 year BC anniversary' raffle! Enjoy!

Thank you, this is being saved for my boyfriend. He enjoys this sort of thing.

from the girlfriend's collection.