The Interpretation of Dreams.

£800 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The third impression, printed the same year as the first, of the first English-language translation of Sigmund Freud's (1836-1939) Die Traumdeutung . A cornerstone text in the field of psychoanalysis. The Interpretation of Dreams introduces Freud's key theory of the psyche as it relates to the unconscious mind, and discusses what would infamously become known as the Oedipus complex. According to Haskell-Norman, Freud considered this work to be 'his greatest achievement... [this book was] identified as the manifesto of Freud's revolutionary thought'. First edition, third impression; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); ownership inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, occasional light spotting; publisher's blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, spine darkened, slightly rubbed and soiled; xii, [1], 510pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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