ABSTRACT
In the history of modern dream analysis this was the entry point to the understanding of omnibus dreams, dreams as interrelated clusters, not unlike galaxies of the mind. Freud’s awareness of the connection between dreams, and his being able to see a previous dream in a different light, also demonstrates that the interpretation of a dream can never be fully exhausted. On a level beyond the emotional, dreams encapsulate not only hidden meaning but also the mysteries of life. The foundation myth of psychoanalysis is closely linked with Freud’s father’s death, and the writing of his major work, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), which he carefully product-planted at the turn of the nineteenth century, somehow apprehending its seminal influence. Few dreams have become the subject of so much attention and analysis. Freud himself wrote twenty-four pages of free-associative comments on his master specimen.
