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First American edition, first printing, first issue, with integral title page. Without the rare errata slip tipped in opposite page [1]. Translated from the third German edition. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt; as issued without dust jacket. Near Fine with light edge wear; non-permeating dampstain to top edge of textblock and light dampstain to edge of rear cover. Bookseller ticket on front free endpaper; offsetting at endsheets with toning and light foxing to contents. A much nicer copy than as usually found. First published in German in 1899 with both English and American editions issued in 1913, using the same sheets, with no clear priority. "Unquestionably Freud's greatest single work. It contains all the basic components of psychoanalytic theory and practice: the erotic nature of dreams, the 'Oedipus complex,' the libido and the rest; all related to the background of the 'unconscious,' later to be called the 'sub-conscious" (PMM 389).

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.