""The groundbreaking masterwork that launched psychoanalysis." -- Time. Why do we dream? And what do our dreams signify? The monumental treatise that transformed the Viennese neurologist into a cause célèbre, this exploration of the dream world features dozens of fascinating case studies and Freud's engrossing analyses of actual dreams. "-- Provided by publisher.

Note -- Introductory remarks -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Translator's Preface -- The scientific literature on the problems of the dream -- Method of dream interpretation: the analysis of a sample dream -- The dream is the fulfillment of a wish -- Distortion in dreams -- The material and sources of dreams -- The dream-work -- The psychology of the dream activities -- Literary index -- index.