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THIRD EDITION

by Sigmund Freud

Translated by A. A. Brill (1911)

CONTENTS

• Preface to the Third German Edition
• Preface to the Second German Edition
• Introductory Note to First Edition
• Chapter I: The Scientific Literature Dealing with the Problems of Dreams
  • A. The Relation of Dreams to the Waking State
  • B. The Material of Dreams -- Memory in Dreams
  • C. Dream Stimuli and Sources
  • D. Why Dreams are Forgotten after Waking
  • E. The Distinguishing Psychological Characteristics of Dreams
  • F. The Ethical Sense in Dreams
  • G. Dream Theories and the Function of the Dream
  • H. The Relation between Dreams and Mental Diseases
• Chapter II: The Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream
• Chapter III: The Dream as Wish-Fulfilment
• Chapter IV: Distortion in Dreams
• Chapter V. The Material and Sources of Dreams
  • A. Recent and Indifferent Impressions in the Dream
  • B. Infantile Experiences as the Source of Dreams
  • C. The Somatic Sources of Dreams
  • D. Typical Dreams
• Chapter VI: The Dream-Work
  • A. Condensation
  • B. The Work of Displacement
  • C. The Means of Representation in Dreams
  • D. Regard for Representability
  • E. Representation by Symbols in Dreams -- Some Further Typical Dreams
  • F. Examples - Arithmetic and Speech in Dreams
  • G. Absurd Dreams -- Intellectual Performances in Dreams
  • H. Affects in Dreams
  • I. The Secondary Elaboration
• Chapter VII: The Psychology of the Dream-Processes
  • A. The Forgetting of Dreams
  • B. Regression
  • C. Wish-Fulfillment
  • D. Waking Caused by Dreams -- The Function of Dreams -- The Anxiety Dream
  • E. The Primary and Secondary Processes -- Repression
  • F. The Unconscious and Consciousness -- Reality
• Bibliography

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