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Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (230 x 152 mm). [4], 371, [5] pp., a few text diagrams. Contemporary dark-blue cloth with the original upper and lower printed wrapper bound in, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers (spine ends and extremities slightly rubbed, lower corners bumped). Lower- and fore-edge uncut, all pages expertly opened. Text very little age-toned only, short tear to blank fore-margin of p. 195/6. Provenance: Löwis? (inscribed in pencil on final free endpaper), short manuscript entry on title verso. An exceptional copy, clean and bright troughout and with the rare printed wrappers present. ---- FIRST EDITION of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud's greatest single work and the foundation of psychoanalysis. Freud's first major work on psychology, Die Traumdeutung contains "all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice" (PMM): displacement, regression, the libido, Oedipal…

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.

Look for the publisher's name 'Franz Deuticke' and the publication date of 1899. Early versions often have no ISBN.