Книга: Sigmund Freud «The Interpretation of Dreams»

Производитель: "OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS"

Серия: "Oxford World`s Classics"

One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin`s The Origin of Species, revolutionized our understanding of human nature. Now this groundbreaking new translation--the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899--brings us a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud`s masterpiece. The first edition of The Interpretation of Dreams is much shorter than its subsequent editions; each time the text was reissued, from 1909 onwards, Freud added to it. The most significant, and in many ways the most unfortunate addition, is a 50-page section devoted to the kind of mechanical reading of dream symbolism--long objects equal male genitalia, etc.--that has gained popular currency and partially obscured Freud`s more profound insights into dreams. In the original version presented here, Freud`s emphasis falls more clearly on the use of words in dreams and on the difficulty of deciphering them. Without the strata of later additions, readers will find here a clearer development of Freud`s central ideas--of dream as wish-fulfillment, of the dream`s manifest and latent content, of the retelling of dreams as a continuation of the dreamwork, and much more. Joyce Crick`s translation is lighter and faster-moving than previous versions, enhancing the sense of dialogue with the reader, one of Freud`s stylistic strengths, and allowing us to follow Freud`s theory as it evolved through difficult cases, apparently intractable counter-examples, and fascinating analyses of Freud`s own dreams. The restoration of Freud`s classic is a major event, giving us in a sense a new work by one of this century`most startling, original, and influential thinkers.

Издательство: "OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS" (2008)

ISBN: 978-0-19-953758-7