Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams late in 1899. It has outsized importance among his writings, as arguably the founding document of psychoanalysis. In his own estimation, the book contains “the most valuable of all the discoveries it has been my good fortune to make”.
When I first became interested in psychoanalysis, the Pelican Freud Library was the mother lode. Launched in 1973, this first English-language paperback edition of Freud’s major writings was intended for a general readership. Its colourful covers brightened many a student’s bookshelf.
