The Interpretation of Dreams

Across seven chapters Freud presents the dream-work — condensation, displacement, the means of representation, secondary elaboration — and the technique for tracing manifest dreams back to their latent thoughts. The book is built around hundreds of dreams, many Freud's own, including the celebrated dream of Irma's injection that broke the analytic ground. Chapter VII develops the topographic model of mind (unconscious, preconscious, conscious) that would underwrite the next two decades of psychoanalytic theory. A. A. Brill's 1913 translation of the third German edition is presented here.