ABSTRACT
The year 1898 was that in which Freud conceived the ideas which secured publication in the years 1901 and 1904, under the title Zur psychopathologie des Alltagslebens. The book had a great success, precisely because its full bearing was not at first understood. It is one of the best of Freud's writings, full of wit and charm. In the later editions, the author invited all his pupils to share the hospitality of its pages. I have said that the exercise of similar hospitality proved disastrous to Die Traumdeutung considered as a work of art, but the framework of the Psychopathologie is sufficiently elastic to house the merry company.
