One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams, a book that, like Darwin's The Origin of Species, revolutionized our understanding of human nature.

Now this groundbreaking new translation--the first to be based on the original text published in November 1899--brings us a more readable, more accurate, and more coherent picture of Freud's masterpiece. It restores Freud's original argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book's critical reception which included, under the influence of his associate Wilhelm Stekel, the theory of dream symbolism.

Reading the first edition reveals Freud's original emphasis on the use of words in dreams and on the difficulty of deciphering them and Joyce Crick captures with far greater immediacy and accuracy than previous translations by Strachey's Freud's emphasis and terminology.

An accessible introduction by Ritchie Robertson summarizes and comments on Freud's argument and relates it to his early work. Close annotation explains Freud's many autobiographical, literary and historical allusions and makes this the first edition to present Freud's early work in its full intellectual and cultural context.

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Introduction
Note on the Text
Note on the Translation
Select Bibliography
A Chronology of Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams: Fleetere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo
Freud’s Bibliography
Postscript
Explanatory Notes
Index of Dreams
Index

Sigmund Freud

Translated by Joyce Crick and Edited with an introduction by Ritchie Robertson.

`is fascinating and endlessly entertaining' -- John Banville 23/11/2000

`Joyce Crick's clear, clean and pure re-translation' -- John Banville The Irish Times 18/11/2000

`'The link between psychoanalysis and the arts is endlessly fascinating, and there is no better place to start exploring it than Joyce Crick's fresh translation.  Crick returns to Freud's original edition - before he added the edifice of sexual symbols (towers and staircases) which have been fodder for a century of shrink-bashers - and sweeps away the archaic technical terms used in James Strachey's standard version. She returns Freud to the lay reader as, above all, a brilliant writer: profound, accessible, elegant, his case histories as compelling as fiction, the conviction of his vision a pleasure and a provocation.'' -- Financial Times