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 1 The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dream Psychology, by Sigmund Freud
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Title: Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners
Author: Sigmund Freud
Release Date: March 28, 2005 [EBook #15489]
Language: English
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DREAM PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOANALYSIS FOR BEGINNERS
BY PROF. DR. SIGMUND FREUD
AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY M.D. EDER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDRE TRIDON Author of "Psychoanalysis, its History, Theory and Practice." "Psychoanalysis and Behavior" and "Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams"
NEW YORK THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY 1920
THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
INTRODUCTION
The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.
Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions.
Remember the scornful reception which first was accorded to Freud's discoveries in the domain of the unconscious.
When after years of patient observations, he finally decided to appear before medical bodies to tell them modestly of some facts which always recurred in his dream and his patients' dreams, he was first laughed at and then avoided as a crank.
The words "dream interpretation" were and still are indeed fraught with unpleasant, unscientific associations. They remind one of all sorts of childish, superstitious notions, which make up the thread and woof of dream books, read by none but the ignorant and the primitive.
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