ABSTRACT

Freud, The interpretation of dreams, S.E. IV-V: 1-627. Essential reading for this chapter, though the reader can safely skip Chapter 1.

Other readings

M. Solms, ‘The interpretation of dreams and the neurosciences’, Psychoanalysis and history 3 (2001) pp. 79-91. For those interested in how Freud’s theory fits with contemporary neuroscience, see this as well as the following three essays:

M. Reiser, ‘The dream in contemporary psychiatry,’ American journal of psychiatry 158 (2001) pp. 351-359.