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More than a hundred years after their first publication, Freud's theories of dream interpretation occupy a firm place in the canon of Western thought. Since The Interpretation of Dreams appeared in 1899, a significant psychoanalytic movement has grown out of the multiple processes detailed within Freud's essential and foundational text. Lydia Marinelli and Andreas Mayer offer a thorough and lucid historical and sociological investigation of the changes dream interpretation underwent between 1899 and 1930, a period of time over which eight different editions of the book were produced.

In this groundbreaking study, Marinelli and Mayer make the case that Freud's readers contributed heavily to the numerous revised editions of the book through their invaluable critiques. Marinelli and Mayer systematically emphasize the involvement of these individuals, who have not previously been taken into consideration or who have been insufficiently accounted for in the editions of The Interpretation of Dreams to date: the critics, colleagues, and patients who formed the audience for each edition of the study as it appeared. The various alterations in the text over the course of its eight editions are thus not examined as immanent theoretical movements oriented toward Freud alone. Instead, they are examined as indicators for social negotiations between the author and the members of the growing psychoanalytic movement in Zurich and Vienna. The authors provide strong arguments toward the case that psychoanalytic theory is the outcome of collective and conflictual processes, revealing that The Interpretation of Dreams is inextricably intertwined with the formation of the psychoanalytic movement and its bifurcations.

The book is supplemented by texts and correspondence that have long remained unpublished or out of print, including two important works by Otto Rank that were part of the fourth and following editions of Freud's book, as well as a text by Sigmund Freud's brother, Alexander, and letters from Eugen Bleuler and Alphonse Maeder.

Träume nach Freud exists now in the second edition (2009) as part of Lydia Marinelli's Collected Works ; the third German edition will appear in 2011 with the same publisher (Turia + Kant, Vienna).

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• Introduction(p. 1)
• I Reading, Writing, Dreaming: The Interpretation of Dreams as Substitute for a Technical Manual(p. 9)
• 1. Between Resistance and Disagreement: Lay and Specialist Readers(p. 13)
• 2. Unconscious Writing: Dream Analyses in Letters(p. 25)
• 3. Conceited Doctors and Well-Trained Patients(p. 39)
• II A Royal Road and Its Branchings: The Transformation of The Interpretation of Dreams to a Symbol Lexicon(p. 51)
• 4. A "Central Bureau for Dreams": Collective Research on Symbolism(p. 55)
• 5. Reversals of the Theory(p. 67)
• 6. Philology, Typography, and the Oedipus Complex(p. 73)
• 7. Theory in the Dream: The Phenomenon of Autosymbolism(p. 89)
• 8. Analysis without Synthesis(p. 101)
• 9. The Visibility of Repression(p. 113)
• III The Interpretation of Dreams between "Historical Document" and New Dream Languages(p. 121)
• 10. The Return of the Author Freud(p. 123)
• 11. Dreaming Translators and Legitimate Interpreters(p. 127)
• IV Afterword: The Interpretation of Dreams Today(p. 139)
• Appendices Sources for the History of The Interpretation of Dreams
• A. Alexander Freud: "The Interpretation of Dreams"(p. 147)
• B. Seven Letters from Eugen Bleuler to Sigmund Freud, 1905-1906(p. 159)
• C. Three Letters from the Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Alphonse Maeder(p. 177)
• D. Otto Rank: "Dreams and Poetry," "Dreams and Myth": Two Texts from Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams(p. 191)
• References(p. 239)
• Index(p. 253)

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Library Journal Review

Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams appeared in eight editions between 1899 and 1930. Here, Mayer (Max Planck Inst.) and Marinelli (Freud Museum, Vienna) track textual changes in relation to psychoanalytic practice, arguing that discursive and social formations have mutual influences that can be identified. This pioneering bibliographic and historical effort shows how Freud's original text preceded a methodology of dream interpretation, which, in the middle phase, incorporated myth and literature in a lexicon of symbols, ending with canonization of the text. Mainly of interest to students of psychoanalysis, the book contains appendixes of more general interest and accessibility, notably two chapters by Otto Rank, "Dreams and Poetry" and "Dreams and Myth," that were part of Freud's magnum opus until the two men separated. Recommended for academic libraries.-E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

The title notwithstanding, this book is actually a history of The Interpretation of Dreams. Marinelli (research director of the Sigmund Freud Foundation) and Mayer (research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) have chronicled the events and people surrounding the eight editions of Freud's work. The evolution of The Interpretation of Dreams is an interesting one, embodying "an ongoing reciprocal interaction between the author and his readership of disciples, critics, colleagues, and patients." The authors examine the historical setting when Freud wrote the book, putting his creation in context. Drawing on a wealth of information in archival documents, the authors look at sections of the various editions written by other authors and a number of unpublished sources. Includes extensive appendix materials. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Collections supporting coursework on Freud and his developing thought and works; upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. J. Bailey Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute

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Andreas Mayer is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.