Freud's Interpretation of Dreams: A Reappraisal

by Susan Sugarman

Book Overview

Freud always regarded The Interpretation of Dreams, and in particular its thesis that dreams fulfill wishes, as his landmark contribution and the scaffolding of his subsequent work. Susan Sugarman, after carefully examining the text and scrutinizing a range of Freud's other works, shows that the dreams book is not and cannot be that scaffolding. For, not only does his argument on dreams falter, but his reasoning elsewhere - in his case histories,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009244167
• ISBN13: 9781009244169
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"