title: Dreams, with eBook
author: Sigmund Freud
description: Sigmund Freud (18561939), an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis, isconsidered the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century and the author of The Interpretation of Dreams.
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  ## PROLOGUE
  
  
  More than once, in the hazy dreamscape between slumber and consciousness, I’ve
  had a vision of a young woman with long black hair that glistens in the sun
  like obsidian. In this dream I am small next to her and she is holding me
  close to her br