Book, Freud v.04 (1900) The interpretation of dreams[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Volume 4 of the collection of Freud's Complete Works, The Interpretation of Dreams is the most famous book by the creator of psychoanalysis and laid the foundations of new knowledge when it was published in 1900. The first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams was released at the end of 1899 (dated 1900) in a circulation of just six hundred copies, which took eight years to be sold. More than a century later, it has become one of the most influential books of the modern era, with countless editions in dozens of languages. The book is divided into seven major chapters. In the first, Freud reviews the entire bibliography on the subject, since Antiquity. The second brings his method of interpretation, with the example of “Irma’s injection dream”. Analyzing almost 50 of his own dreams and hundreds of dreams reported in the literature, Freud comes to the conclusion that dreams are the disguised fulfillment of a repressed desire, often of childhood origin. This forms the theme of the following three chapters of the book. Chapter 6 studies the mechanisms that “dream work” uses to disguise or deform desire: the condensation and displacement of material. The forms of representation with symbols are also addressed. The last chapter, the most theoretical, exposes the psychology of dream processes. This is the 16th release from the Freud collection. The next one will be volume 5, with Psychopathology of everyday life and About dreams.