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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his magnum opus, The Interpretations of Dreams, Sigmund Freud argued that “the interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”.