Review
"The groundbreaking work that launched psychoanalysis."―Time
"A century after the book's publication, Freud's ideas have seeped so deeply into the culture that most people invoke them daily without being aware of it."―New York Times
"It is impossible to read The Interpretation of Dreams without coming away wiser."―Globe & Mail
"Freud's classic. Freud has been a dominant force in Western thinking and here's the book that started it all."―Psychology Today
"[An] epoch-making book."― Economist
"At the beginning of our century, the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams changed our everyday perception of that essential component of human existence."―Daily Mail
About the Author
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was a clinical neurologist living and practicing in Vienna. His groundbreaking theories of the id, ego, and super-ego of the mind continue to be studied throughout the world.
James Strachey (1887–1967) was a British academic and psychoanalyst. The Interpretation of Dreams is considered a major foundational text of the field and one of Strachey’s preeminent translations.