The Interpretation Of Dreams

Few books have done more to shape the twentieth-century mind than The Interpretation of Dreams. First published in November 1899 it is the originator of concepts such as the Oedipus complex and the notion, now taken for granted, that our daily lives are governed not only by conscious decisions but by unconscious pressures. Although it inaugurated the new practice of psychoanalysis, its most lasting impact has been on our social and cultural outlook, on how we interpret literature and art, and on the language in which we do so.