Freud began recording dreams without exactly knowing why by ... Turning to his theory that dreams were secret wishes, he came up with an interpretation. His "overly-affectionate feelings" for ...

In 1897 Sigmund Freud began his famous course of self-analysis. He had already noticed that dreams played an important role in his analysis of neurotic and "hysterical" patients. As he encouraged ...

He proposed ways of deciphering their meaning in his 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams. What is a “Freudian slip”? Created with Sketch. A "Freudian slip" is an instance of misspeaking ...

Mark Solms, a psychoanalyst himself, has re-examined Freud’s key work The Interpretation of Dreams and added greater context to a new translation of the book. He told The Guardian ...

Nowadays, dream reading is often associated with the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, whose 1899 book The Interpretation of Dreams argued that our midnight reveries depict the fulfilment of unrealised ...