On Dreams, Sigmund Freud
On Dreams, Sigmund Freud
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On Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

Narrator: Ram Ranjini

Unabridged: 2 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2025

Synopsis

In On Dreams, Sigmund Freud distills the essence of his groundbreaking work, The Interpretation of Dreams, into a concise and accessible exploration of the human psyche. First published in 1901, this seminal text offers a lucid summary of Freud’s theories on how dreams function as veiled wish fulfillment, shaped by the unconscious mind.Freud delves into the mechanisms that govern dream formation—such as condensation, displacement, dramatization, and censorship—revealing how these processes distort repressed desires into the surreal narratives we experience during sleep. Blending clinical observation with philosophical insight, he contrasts scientific and popular views of dreaming, examines the influence of daily life on dream content, and categorizes different types of dreams.Ideal for students, psychologists, and anyone curious about the workings of the unconscious, On Dreams remains a timeless introduction to psychoanalytic thought and Freud's enduring legacy.

About Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Considered the most influential psychological theorist of the twentieth century, Freud's theories have had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking. Freud's fundamental idea was that all humans are endowed with an unconscious in which potent sexual and aggressive drives, and defenses against them, struggle for supremacy. His first major work was The Interpretation of Dreams, which established the importance of the psychoanalytical movement. His other writings include Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Future of an Illusion, The Ego and the Id, and Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by André on April 30, 2019

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious." Dreamstates have always fascinated me. I've always pictured my dreams as something from my own unconscious state, based on images and symbols that my brain unconsciously recollects and reconstructs during sleeping time. These images, pictures, symbols,......more

Goodreads review by Rosa on July 05, 2014

Os sonhos tem significados...Alguns! Freud diz que sonhar é significar!......more

Goodreads review by Andreea on October 22, 2012

This was so brilliant! Oh, God! Oh, God! I MUST read "The Interpretation of Dreams"! I know I must make a summary, otherwise I won't remember half of what I've read (not conscious, anyway). Basically, all dreams are wishes. And if the dream is much too weird and seems like maybe the opposite of some......more

Goodreads review by Esmay on May 17, 2019

I'm not gonna put an entire review on here, simply because this is thesis research, but I did want to say that it was quite interesting!......more

Goodreads review by Shua on August 11, 2020

Freud was no delusional fool.......more

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