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With 3 text diagrams. Bound in black cloth with spine label. Small blind stamp of Dr. George B. Wilbur. THE FOUNDATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS FREUD, Sigmund Die Traumdeutung (The interpretation of dreams). Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900. 8vo. With 3 text diagrams. Black cloth, spine label; a fine copy with the small blind stamp of Dr. George B. Wilbur (1887-1976), former editor and publisher of the psychoanalytic journal American Imago. FIRST EDITION of Freud's greatest work, on the interpretation of dreams, which had an immeasurable influence on twentieth-century culture. This contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice: the erotic nature of dreams, the "Oedipus complex", the libido, etc.; all related to the background of the "unconscious," later to be called the "sub-conscious" (see PMM, 389). $ 25,000.00.

Die Traumdeutung, which translates as 'The Interpretation of Dreams', is one of the seminal works of psychoanalysis literature. Written by Sigmund Freud, it introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation and also discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book at least eight times and, in the third edition, added an extensive section which treated dream symbolism very literally, following the influence of Wilhelm Stekel.