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Original blue cloth. First Edition in English of Die Traumdeutung, which was published simultaneously in New York and London. Provenance: Signature in ink of notable Guy Montrose Whipple, an educational psychologist who was one of the four founding editors of the Journal of Educational Psychology. He developed tests of human intelligence and personality and conducted research on gifted education, literacy, vocational education, and the psychology of eyewitness testimony. Beneath Whipple?s signature is this notation in his handwriting in ink: ?April, 1913 ? Review J.E.P.? We think that Whipple is referring to a review of this book in the Journal of Educational Psychology, but we have been unable to find it. In Printing and the Mind of Man 389 is written: ?This is unquestionably Freud?s greatest work. It contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice.? Some fading on spine, slight corner wear, Very Good.

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.