ABSTRACT
In order to write his treatise The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud had to disclose, to a greater extent than he might have liked, the depths of his psychic life—something that would have been easier for a poet or a novelist than for a man who saw himself as a researcher in natural science. Freud always acknowledged that a number of philosophers had introduced the notion of the unconscious before him, and that the dream had been the subject of numerous studies, but what he calls the "unconscious" is altogether different. Freud identified the laws governing the unconscious and the signs through which it reveals itself. He did the same thing when he identified the transference phenomena, unconscious for the most part, which he was initially unable to describe as such theoretically. In his Project for a Scientific Psychology, Freud attempts to express his psychological theory in neurological language.
