title: The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text
author:  Sigmund Freud 
description: "The groundbreaking work that launched psychoanalysis."<b><i><b><i>Time</i></b></i></b><br /><br />"A century after the book's publication, Freud's ideas have seeped so deeply into the culture that most people invoke them daily without being aware of it."<b><i><i><b>New York Times</b></i></i></b><br /><br />"It is impossible to read <i>The Interpretation of Dreams</i> without coming away wiser."<b><i><i><b>Globe &amp; Mail</b></i></i></b><br /><br />"Freud's classic. Freud has been a dominant force in Western thinking and here's the book that started it all."<b><i><i><b>Psychology Today</b></i></i></b><br /><br />"[An] epoch-making book."<b><i><i><b> Economist</b></i></i></b>
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  **Table of Contents**
  
    
  
  _From the Pages of The Interpretation of Dreams_
  
   _Title Page_
  
   _Copyright Page_
  
   _Sigmund Freud_
  
   _The World of Sigmund Freud and The Interpretation of Dreams_
  
   _Introduction_
  
   _Note on the Translation and the Notes_
  
   _Introductory Remarks_
  
   _Preface to the Second Edition_
  
   _Preface to the Third Edition_
  
   _Translator’s Preface_
  
    
  
  I - The Scientific Literature on the Problems of the Dream
  
    
  
  II - Method of Dream Interpretation
  
  > The Analysis of a Sample Dream
  
    
  
  III - The Dream is the Fulfilment of a Wish
  
    
  
  IV - Distortion in Dreams
  
    
  
  V - The Material and Sources of Dreams
  
  > (A) RECENT AND INDIFFERENT IMPRESSIONS IN THE DREAM
  
  > (B) INFANTILE EXPERIENCES AS THE SOURCE OF DREAMS
  
  > (C) SOMATIC SOURCES OF DREAMS
  
  > (D) TYPICAL DREAMS
  
    
  
  VI - The Dream-Work
  
  > (A) THE CONDENSATION WORK
  
  > (B) THE WORK OF DISPLACEMENT
  
  > (C) MEANS OF REPRESENTATION IN THE DREAM
  
  > (D) REGARD FOR PRESENTABILITY
  
  > (E) EXAMPLE