The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud

116. Stekel, Wilhelm (Wien): Die Sprache des Traumes. A description of the symbolism and interpretation of the Dream and its relation to the normal and abnormal mind for physicians and psychologists. (Wiesbaden, 1911.)

117. Swoboda, Hermann. Die Perioden des menschlichen Organismus. (Wien und Leipzig, 1904.)

118. Waterman, George A. (Boston): “Dreams as a Cause of Symptoms.” (The Journal of Abnormal Psychol., Oct.-Nov. 1910.)

INDEX

• Abraham, K., [78], [245]
• Absurd dreams, [59], [327], [334]–364
• Absurdity of dreams, [327]
• Acceleration of thought in dreams, [397]
• Accidental stimuli, [185], [186]
• Adler, Alf., [241]
• Affects, flagging of, [457]
• — in the dream, [364]–389
• — inversion of, [375]
• — restraint of, [372]
• — sources of, [382]
• — suppression of, [371], [372], [375]
• — transformation of, [479]
• Agoraphobia, [249], [259]
• Alarm clock dreams, [21], [22], [186]
• Allegorising interpretation of dreams, [48]
• — symbolisms, [81]
• Altruistic impulses, [212]
• Ambiguity of dreams, [125]
• Amnesia, [412], [413]
• Analyses of dreams, [90]–102, [116]–120, [124]–128, [131], [143]–146, [155]–157, [160]–166, [167]–183, [193]–196, [201]–203, [219]–221, [227]–230, [232]–259, [264]–283, [308], [309], [312], [317], [318], [320]–364, [366]–376, [378]–389, [397], [398], [460]–462
• — self, [87]
• Analysis of dream life, [33]
• — of psychological formations, [487]
• Anamnesis, [281]
• Anxiety dreams, [27], [28], [74], [114], [136], [137], [199], [200], [226], [231], [245], [247], [413], [436], [458]–464
• Apparent duration of dreams, [53]
• Arbitrariness in dream interpretation, [190]
• Aristotle, [2], [27]
• Arithmetic speeches in dreams, [322]–334
• Artemidoros of Daldis, [82], [481]
• Artificial dreams, [81]
• Artigues, [27]
• Association dreams, [186]
• Auditory hallucinations, [26]
• — pictures, [41]
• Automatisms, [489]
• Benedikt, M., [392]
• Benini, V., [37];
  • quoted, [59]
• Bernard, Claude, [414]
• Binz, C., [63];
  • quoted, [14], [47]
• Bisexuality, [481]
• Bladder-exciting dreams, [72]
• Bleuler and Freud, [41], [81], [111]
• Bodily stimuli, [185], [193]
• — — symbolisation of, [190]
• Boerner, [28]
• Brandes, G., [225]
• Breuer, J., [83], [470]
• Brill, A. A., [111], [136], [195], [240], [419]
• Bruecke, [325], [357]
• Burdach quoted, [4], [5], [41]–43, [65], [68], [188]
• Buzareingues, Giron de, [19]
• Calkins, Miss Whiton, [15], [16], [36], [186]
• Causality, law of, [42]
• Causal relations, [292], [293]
• Censor of resistance, [287]
• Cerebral anæmia, [463], [464]
• Chabaneix, [36], [53]
• Characteristics of the sleeping state, [466]
• Chemistry of the sexual processes, [276]
• Childish impressions, [323]
• Children’s dreams, [107]–112, [155], [438]
• Chronic psychotic persons, [75]
• Cicero quoted, [6], [46]
• Cipher method of interpreting dreams, [82], [83], [87], [245]
• Clark, G. S., [222]
• Claustrophobia, [267]
• Coinage of words in dreams, [279]
• Complications of the human character, [493]
• Compositions in dreams, [300], [301]
• Compression, principle of, [471]
• Compulsion neurosis, [207], [212], [221]
• Compulsive ideas, [83], [283]
• Condensation, principle of, [471]
• — work of the dream, [261], [283], [288], [315], [358], [430], [472]
• Condensing activity of the dream, [277]
• Conflict of psychic forces, [372]
• — of the will, [208], [312]
• Connection between dream content and reality, [7]
• Conscious day phantasies, [393]
• — end-presentations, [421]
• — thought activity in dream formations, [445]
• — wishes, [438], [439]
• Consciousness, problems of, [490]
• Consolation dreams, [232]
• Content of perception, [453], [454]
• Convenience dreams, [105]
• Correspondence between dreams and reality, [157]
• Counter volition, [312]
• — wish dreams, [133], [135]
• Curative activity of the dream, [69]
• Dattner, B., [254]
• Daudet, A., [268], [392]
• David, J. J., [280]
• Day phantasies, [393], [394]
• Death-wish towards parents, [218]
• Debacker, [114], [463]
• De Biran, Maine, [75]
• Defence-neuropsychoses, [195]
• Degeneration, [212]
• D’Hervey, Marquis, [20], [51]
• Delage, Yves, [152], [467];
  • quoted, [67], [68]
• Delbœuf, J., [8], [9], [16], [42], [48], [152];
  • quoted, [15], [43], [88]
• — theory of, [62], [63]
• Deliriums of hunger, [447]
• Delusions, [75], [452]
• Demonomania, [464]
• Demonomaniacal hallucinations, [464]
• Dental irritation, dreams of, [230], [234], [235]
• — stimulus, [191]
• De Sanctis, Sante, [74], [79]
• “Desired” ideas, [85]
• Digestive disturbances and dreams, [28], [185]
• Disagreeable dreams, [112], [135]
• Disfigurement of dreams, [115], [184], [305], [365]
• Disfiguring activity of dreams, [327]
• Displacement in dream formation, [314]
• Displacement of psychic intensities, [402]
• Distortion in dreams, [113]–137, [415]
• Disturbing stimuli, [62]
• Divinatory power of the dream, [53]
• Dream activity, [329], [401]
• — affects in the, [364]–389
• — censor, [198], [387], [407], [409]
• — condensation, [261], [283], [286], [288], [315], [358], [430], [472]
• — curative activity of the, [69]
• — digestive disturbances and the, [28], [185]
• — disfigurement, [115], [184], [304], [365]
• — displacement, [150], [286]–288
• — divinatory power of the dream, [53]
• — enigma of the, [365]
• — ethical feelings in the, [54]
• — etiology of the, [53]
• — fear, [136]
• — formation, [185], [198]–200, [262], [263], [273], [276], [277], [285], [287], [322], [389], [390], [400], [429], [450], [465], [481]
• — — displacement in, [314]
• — — laws of the, [23]
• — — mechanism of, [297]
• — — origin of the, [416]
• — — psychic activity in, [401]
• — formation, requirements of, [322]
• — functions of the, [61]–73, [458]
• — hallucinations, [42]
• — hypermnesia, [10], [465]
• — images, variegated, [189]
• — interpretation, cipher method of, [82], [83], [87], [245]
• — — method of, [80]–102
• — — problem of, [80]
• — — symbolic, [81]
• — illusions, [24]
• — influence of sexual excitement on the, [28]
• — keystone of the, [415]
• — life, theory of, [46], [78]
• — material of the, [7]–16
• — means of representation in the, [288]
• — memory in the, [7]–16, [14], [48], [184]
• — of nerve stimulus, [186]
• — obscurity of the, [1]
• — origin of the, [407]
• — paramnesia in the, [352]
• — peculiarity of the, [45]
• — phantasy, [70]–72
• — phenomena of the, [487]
• — pre-scientific conception of the, [2]
• — problem, present status of the, [1]
• Dream, problems of the, [3]
• — processes, primary, [464]–474
• — — psychology of the, [464]
• — — secondary, [474]–479
• — prophetic power of the, [27]
• — psychic activity in the, [46], [68]
• — — capacities in the, [48]
• — — resources of the, [399]
• — psychological character of the, [52], [423], [431]
• — psychology of the, [416]
• — psychotherapy of the, [75]
• — reactions, [155]
• — regression of the, [431]
• — relation of the, to the waking state, [4]–7
• — riddles of the, [444]
• — scientific theories of the, [80]
• — sources, [16]–35
• — stimuli, [16]–35, [139], [155]
• — strangeness of the, [1]
• — sway of the, [11]
• — symbolism, [249]
• — the guardian of sleep, [197]
• — theories, [61]–73
• — thoughts, elements of the, [284], [285]
• — — emotions of the, [375]
• — — logical relations among the, [291]
• — — revealed upon analysis, [159]
• — — structure of, [431]
• — verbal compositions of the, [283]
• — waking caused by the, [452]–458
• — wishes, [429], [437], [438]
• — — transferred, [455]
• — wish-fulfilment of the, [76]
• — within the dream, [313]
• — work, the, [260]–402
• Dreams about fire, [239]
• — absurd, [59], [327], [334]–364
• — acceleration of thought in, [397]
• — alarm clock, [21], [22], [186]
• — ambiguity of, [125]
• — analyses of, [90]–102, [116]–120, [124]–128, [131], [143]–146, [155]–157, [160]–166, [167]–183, [193]–196, [201]–203, [219]–221, [227]–230, [232]–259, [264]–283, [308], [309], [312], [317], [318], [320]–364, [366]–376, [378]–389, [397], [398], [460]–462
• — and mental diseases, [73]–79
• — — disturbance, [77]
• — anxiety, [27], [28], [74], [114], [136], [137], [199], [200], [226], [231], [245], [247], [413], [436], [458]–464
• Dreams, apparent duration of, [53]
• — arithmetic speeches in, [322]–334
• — artificial, [81]
• — as picture puzzles, [261]
• — as psychic products, [51]
• — association, [186]
• — bladder-exciting, [72]
• — children’s dreams, [107]–112, [155], [438]
• — composition in, [300], [301]
• — consolation, [232]
• — counter-wish, [133], [135]
• — digestive organs and, [185]
• — disagreeable, [122], [135]
• — disfigurement of, [115], [135]
• — disfiguring activity of, [327]
• — distortion in, [113]–137, [415]
• — egotism in, [229]
• — etiology of, [24], [33], [64]
• — examination, [230], [231], [378]
• — exhibition, [207], [267], [311]
• — experimentally produced, [23]
• — forgetting in, [262], [405]–421
• — formation of, [185], [198]–200, [262], [263], [273], [277], [285], [287]
• — “fractionary” interpretation of, [414]
• — hallucinatory, [430]
• — harmless, [155], [157]
• — headache, [71], [189]
• — healing properties of, [66]
• — historical significance of, [487]
• — hunger, [113], [241]
• — hypermnesia, [9], [11]
• — hypocritical, [122], [376]
• — illusory formations in, [191]
• — immoral, [59]
• — impression, [232]
• — language of, [104]
• — mantic power of, [3]
• — material of, [138]–259
• — memory of, [38]
• — nerve-exciting, [34]
• — of convenience, [105], [241], [451]
• — of death, [216], [218]
• — of dental irritation, [230], [234], [235]
• — of falling, [239]
• — of fear, [114], [226]
• — of flying, [239]
• — of intestinal excitement, [72]
• — of inversion, [303]
• — of nakedness, [207]
• — of neurotics, [87]
• — of swimming, [239]
• — of the dead, [338]
• — of thirst, [105], [241]
• — of visual stimulation, [191]
• — partition of, [293]
• — parturition, [243]–245
• — perennial, [159]
• — pollution, [310]
• — prophetic power of, [3]
• — psychic source of, [33]
• — psychological investigation in, [405]
• — — peculiarity of, [39], [40]
• — punitive, [378]
• — scientific literature on, [1]–79
• — self-correction in, [411]
• — sexual, [240]
• — — organs and, [185]
• — somatic origin of, [64]
• — sources of, [138]–259
• — supernatural origin of, [3]
• — symbolic interpretation of, [316]
• — symbolism in, [249]–259
• — the fulfilment of wishes, [103]–112, [123], [128], [134], [393]
• — theoretical value of the study of, [492]
• — theory of the origin of, [29], [127]
• — the result of egotistical motives, [346]
• — toothache, [189], [190]
• — tooth exciting, [72]
• — transforming activity of, [327]
• — typical, [131]–137, [203]–259
• — unburdening properties of, [66]
• — urinary organs and, [185]
• — why forgotten after awakening, [35]
• — wish, [113], [123], [128], [219]
• — wish-fulfilment in, [104]
• — word coinage in, [279]–281
• Dreaming, psychology of, [154]
• Dugas, [454];
  • quoted, [46], [50]
• Duration of dreams, [53]
• Dyspnœa, [267]
• Egger, V., [21], [53], [397];
  • quoted, [38]
• Egotism in dreams, [229]
• — of the infantile mind, [226]
• Elements of dream thoughts, [284], [285]
• Elimination theory, [458]
• Ellis, Havelock, quoted, [14], [50], [467]
• Emotions of the dream thoughts, [375]
• — of the psychic life, [197]
• — theory of the, [371]
• Endogenous psychic affections, [419]
• Endopsychic censor, [416]
• Endoptic phenomena, [414]
• End-presentations, [419], [421], [470]
• Enigma of the dream, [365]
• Enuresis nocturna of children, [240]
• Ephialtes, [2]
• Essence of consciousness, [121]
• Ethical feelings in the dream, [54]
• Etiology of dreams, [24], [33], [53], [64], [132]
• — of neuroses, [281]
• Examination dreams, [230], [231], [378]
• Examination-phobia, [230]
• Excitation of want, [446]
• Excitations, unconscious, [440], [448], [460]
• Exhibitional cravings, [206]
• Exhibition dreams, [207], [267], [311]
• External nerve stimuli, [186]
• — (objective) sensory stimuli, [17]–27, [193]
• Fading of memories, [457]
• Falling in dreams, [239]
• Fancies while asleep, [307]
• Fechner, G. Th., quoted, [39], [40], [46], [424]
• Federn, Dr. Paul, [239]
• Fensterln, [170]
• Féré, [75]
• Ferenczi, S., [82], [207]
• Festschrift, [264]
• Figaro quoted, [175]
• Fischer, R. P., [55]
• Flagging of affects, [457]
• Fliess, W., [140]
• Fliesse, W., [79]
• Flying in dreams, [239]
• Forbidden wishes, [209]
• Foreconscious wishes, [456]
• Forgetting in dreams, [35]–37, [262], [405]–421
• Formation of dreams, [185], [198]–200, [262], [263], [273], [276], [277], [285], [287], [322], [389], [390], [400], [429], [450], [465], [481]
• — of hysterical symptoms, [481], [482]
• — of illusions, [187]
• “Fractionary” interpretation of dreams, [414]
• France, Anatole, quoted, [78]
• Freud, Dr., [236], [237], [256], [279]
• Functions of the dream, [61], [458]
• Furuncles, [194]
• Furunculosis, [185]
• Garnier, [20]
• Gastric sensations, [30]
• General and specific sensations, [30]
• Goblot quoted, [454]
• Goethe, [486]
• Gregory, [19]
• Griesinger, [76], [113]
• Gruppe, O., quoted, [2]
• Gschnas, [183]
• Guislain, [75]
• Hagen, [75]
• Hallam, Miss Florence, [13], [113]
• Hallucinations, [4], [43], [44], [49], [74], [76], [187], [424], [446]
• — auditory, [26]
• — hypnogogic, [25], [40]
• — ideas transformed into, [41]
• — of hysteria, [432]
• — of paranoia, [432], [433]
• Hallucinatory dreams, [430]
• — paranoia, [77]
• — psychoses, [447]
• — regression, [448]
• Harmless dreams, [155], [157]
• Hartman, Edward von, [113]
• Hauffbauer, [18]
• Headache dreams, [71], [189]
• Healing properties of dreams, [66]
• Helmholtz, [486]
• Herbart quoted, [63]
• Hildebrandt, F. W., [53], [55], [59], [60], [138];
  • quoted, [6], [7], [11], [13], [15], [20], [21], [47], [51], [57], [58]
• Hilferding, Mrs. M., [376]
• Historical significance of dreams, [487]
• Hohnbaum, [74]
• Homer, [208]
• Homosexuality, [233], [248], [304]
• Human character, complication of, [493]
• Hunger dreams, [113]
• Hypermnesia of the dream, [465]
• Hypermnesic dreams, [9], [11]
• Hypnogogic hallucinations, [25], [40]
• — sensory images, [185]
• Hypocritical dreams, [122], [376]
• Hysteria, [283], [418]
• — hallucinations of, [432]
• — study of, [456]
• — theory of, [473]
• Hysterical counter-reaction, [220]
• — identification, [126], [127]
• — imitation, [126]
• — paralysis, theory for, [444]
• — phantasy, [127]
• — phobias, [83], [220], [486]
• Hysterical symptoms, theory of, [449]
• — — formation of, [481], [482], [487]
• — vomiting, [449]
• “Ideal” masochists, [134]
• Ideas, concatenation of, [295]
• — “desired” 85
• — transformation of, [424]
• — transformed into hallucinations, [41]
• — “undesired,” [85]
• Ideation, unconscious, [459]
• Illusions, [24], [49], [76]
• — formation of, [23], [187]
• Illusory formations in dreams, [191]
• Imaginations, [43]
• Immoral dreams, [59]
• Impression dreams, [139], [232]
• Incest, [248]
• Incomprehensible neologisms, [247]
• Independent psychic activity in the dream, [68]
• Individual dream images, [306]
• — psychology, [13]
• Infantile psychology, [211], [221]
• — etiology of the neuroses, [373]
• — experiences as the source of dreams, [157]–184
• — phantasies, [407]
• — reminiscences, [12], [13]
• Influence of sexual excitement on the dream, [28]
• Inner nerve stimuli, [66], [198]
• — sensory stimuli, [66]
• Insomnia, [2]
• Intensive objective stimulation, [193]
• Intermediary presentations, [472]
• — thoughts, [417]
• Internal bodily stimulation, [185]
• — (subjective) sensory stimuli, [24]
• Interpretation of pathological ideas, [85]
• Intestinal excitement dreams, [72]
• Inversion of affects, [375]
• Irma’s dream, [88]–90
• — — analysis of, [90]–102
• Jensen, W., [81]
• Jessen quoted, [5], [9], [18], [38], [54], [60]
• Jodl, [48]
• Jones, Dr., [229]
• Josephus quoted, [309]
• Jung, C. G., [78], [234], [309], [419], [421]
• Kant, [58];
  • quoted, [75]
• Keller, G., quoted, [208]
• Keys to voluntary mobility, [429]
• Keystone of the dream, [415]
• Kleinpaul, [246]
• Koenigstein, Dr., [264]
• Koerner, [85]
• Kontuszówka, [10]
• Krauss, A., [30], [77];
  • quoted, [75]
• Ladd, T., [26], [27], [466]
• Language of dreams, [104]
• Lasalle, [280]
• Lasker, [280]
• Latent dream content, [114], [138], [157], [167], [171], [173], [206], [228], [240], [260], [352]
• Law of causality, [42]
• Laws of Association, [49]
• — of the dream formation, [23]
• Legend of King Oedipus, [222]–224
• — of Nausikaa, [208], [209]
• Le Lorrain, [21], [53], [397], [447]
• Lelut, [75]
• Lemoine, [46]
• Leuret, theory of, [419]
• Liébault, A., [450]
• Lipps, Th., [485], [486];
  • quoted, [188]
• Literature on dreams, [1]–97
• Logical relations among the dream thoughts, [291]
• Lucretius quoted, [5]
• Lynkus, [79]
• Macnish quoted, [19]
• Maeder, A., [246]
• Manifestations of pain, [453]
• Manifest dream content, [114], [138], [159], [166], [173], [181], [240], [243]
• Manifold determination of the dream content, [285]
• Mantic power of dreams, [3]
• Masochistic wish-dreams, [135]
• Material of the dream, [7]–16, [138]–259
• Maury, A., [19]–21, [25], [28], [49], [53], [64], [74], [75], [158], [396], [397], [420], [454];
  • quoted, [5], [9], [12], [46], [51], [60], [61]
• Means of representation in the dream, [288]
• Mechanism of dream formation, [297]
• — of psychoneuroses, [172]
• Medical theory of dream life, [77]
• Meier, [18]
• Memory, fading, [457]
• — in the dream, [7]–16, [38], [48]
• — traces, [426], [430], [446]
• Mental diseases, relations between dreams and, [73]–79
• Mental disturbance and dreams, [77]
• — stimuli, [34]
• Method of dream interpretation, [80]–102, [203]
• Meyer, C. F., [374]
• Meynert, [187], [212]
• Misunderstanding of the dream content, [205]
• Moral nature of man, [55]
• Moreau, J., [75]
• Motor impulses, [220]
• — paralysis in sleep, [311], [312]
• — stimuli, [189]
• Müller, J., [25]
• Muscular sensations, [30]
• Muthmann, [78]
• Myers, [9]
• Näcke, [240]
• Names and syllables, play on, [280], [281]
• Nelson, J., [13]
• Nerve-exciting dreams, [34]
• Nerve stimuli, [185], [186], [196]
• Nervous excitements, [306]
• Neuron excitement, [428]
• Neuropathology, [481]
• Neuropsychology, [489]
• Neuroses, [315]
• — etiology of, [281]
• — infantile etiology of the, [373]
• — psychoanalysis of the, [438]
• — psychological explanation of the, [385]
• — — investigation of the, [439]
• — psychology of the, [443], [460]
• — psychotherapy of the, [439]
• — study of the, [456]
• Neuroses, theory of the, [374]
• Neurotic fear, [136]
• Neurotics, psychoanalysis of, [420]
• Nightmare, [2]
• Night terrors, [462], [463]
• Nocturnal excitations, [440]
• — sensations, [155]
• Nordenskjold, O., [111]
• Novalis quoted, [69]
• Objective external excitements, [197]
• Objective sensory stimuli, [17]–24, [185], [186], [451], [465]
• Obscurity of the dream, [1]
• Obsessions, [315], [452]
• Obsessive impulses, [75]
• Oppenheim, Prof. E., [493]
• Organic sensory stimuli, [71]
• Origin of the dream, [407], [416]
• Origin of dreams, theory of the, [29]
• — of hysterical symptoms, [449]
• — of the psychoses, [29]
• Outer nerve stimuli, [180], [198]
• — sensory stimuli, [66]
• Painful stimuli, [189], [194], [453]
• Paramnesia in the dream, [352]
• Paranoia, [63], [206], [207], [418]
• — hallucinatory, [77], [432], [433]
• Partition of dreams, [293]
• Parturition dreams, [243]–245
• Pathological cases of regression, [435]
• Pavor nocturnus, [462], [463]
• Peculiarities of the dream, [45]
• Penetration into consciousness, [484]
• Perception content, [453]
• — identity, [477]
• — stimuli, [426]
• Peripheral sensations, [30]
• Perennial dreams, [159]
• Perversion, [248]
• Peterson, F., [419]
• Pfaff, E. R., quoted, [55]
• Pfister, O., [245]
• Phantasies, infantile, [407]
• Phantastic ganglia cells, [73]
• — illusions, [187]
• — visual manifestations, [25]
• Phantasy combinations, [43]
• — of being arrested, [395]
• — of marriage, [395]
• Phenomena of the dream, [487]
• Phobias, [315]
• Physical sensations, [30]
• — stimuli, [71], [77], [187]
• Pilcz, [15]
• Plasticity of the psychic material, [246]
• Plato, [493]
• Pleasure stimulus, [453]
• Pneumatic sensations, [30]
• Pollution dreams, [310]
• Pre-scientific conception of the dream, [2]
• Presentation content, [210], [365], [367], [389], [424]
• Present status of the dream problem, [1]
• Pressure stimulus, [188]
• Primary psychic process, [152]
• Prince, Morton, [412]
• Problems of consciousness, [490]
• — of dream interpretation, [80]
• — of repression, [479]
• — of sleep, [4]
• Problems of the dream, [3], [260]
• Prophetic power of dreams, [3], [27]
• Psi-systems, [425], [428], [431], [453], [475]
• Psychic activity in the dream, [46], [62], [401]
• — apparatus, [426]–428, [430], [431], [437], [445], [482], [483];
  • diagrams of, [426], [427], [429]
• — capacity of the dream, [48], [52], [53]
• — censor, [422]
• — complexes, [365]
• — condition of dream formation, [263]
• — dream stimuli, [33]
• — emotions, [445]
• — exciting sources, [33]–35
• — function in dream formation, [391]
• — impulses, [221]
• — infection, [126]
• — intensity, [285]
• — repression, [476]
• — resources of the, [399]
• — sensory organs, [490]
• — source of dreams, [33]
• — state of sleep, [468]
• — stimuli, [34]
• — symptomology, [187]
• Psychoanalysis, [84], [209], [235], [236], [366], [469], [413]
• — of adult neurotics, [219]
• — of neurotics, [87], [154], [420]
• — of the neuroses, [438]
• Psychoanalytic investigations, [9]
• — method of treatment, [78], [491]
• Psychological character of the dream, [52], [423], [431]
• — explanation of the neuroses, [385]
• — formations, [471]
• — — analysis of, [487]
• — investigation in dreams, [405], [422]
• — — of the neuroses, [439]
• — peculiarity of dreams, [39], [40]
• Psychology of children, [107]
• — of dream activities, [403]–493
• — of dreaming, [154]
• — of the dream, [416], [464]
• — of the neuroses, [87], [433], [460]
• — of the psychoneuroses, [433]
• — of the sleeping state, [184]
• — of the unconscious, [385]
• Psychoneuroses, [87], [127], [199], [283], [318], [365], [393], [480], [492]
• — mechanism of the, [172]
• — psychology of the, [433]
• — sexual etiology for, [347]
• Psychoneurotic symptom formations, [481]
• Psychoneurotic symptoms, [473]
• Psychoneurotics, [221], [223]
• Psychopathology, [4], [121]
• — of the dream, [75]
• Psychoses, origin of the, [29]
• Psychosexual excitements, [200]
• Psychotherapy, [457]
• — of the neuroses, [439]
• Punitive dreams, [378]
• Purkinje quoted, [69]
• Purpose served by condensation, [277]
• Purposeful nature of dream-forgetting, [410]
• Radestock, P., [20], [28], [37], [38], [48], [74], [113];
  • quoted, [5], [46], [54], [59], [76], [77]
• Rank, O., [78], [85], [242], [379];
  • quoted, [136]
• Regard for presentability, [313]–322
• Regression, [422]–435
• — of the dream, [431]
• Relation between dream content and dream stimuli, [187]
• — between dreams and mental diseases, [73]–79
• — between dreams and the psychoses, [74]
• — of sexuality to cruelty, [284]
• — of the dream to the waking state, [4]–7, [138]
• Repressed wishes, [199]
• Repression, [478], [479], [484]
• Requirements of dream formation, [322]
• Restraint of affects, [372]
• Riddles of the dream, [33], [34], [444]
• Riklin, [78]
• Robert, W., [13], [138], [139], [467];
  • quoted, [65], [66]
• — elimination theory of, [458]
• Robitsek, Dr. R., [81], [82]
• Rosegger quoted, [376], [377], [378]
• Salzstangeln, [183]
• Scaliger’s dream, [9]
• Scherner, R. A., [30], [31], [33], [69]–71, [80], [189]–191, [310], [434], [467], [486]
• Scherner’s method of dream interpretation, [319]
• Schelling, school of, [3]
• Schiller, Fr., quoted, [85], [86], [361]
• Schleiermacher, Fr., [40], [59], [85]
• Scholz, Fr., [48], [112];
  • quoted, [15], [55]
• Schopenhauer, [29], [54], [75]
• Scientific literature on dreams, [1]–79
• — theories of the dream, [80]
• Secondary elaboration, [355], [389]–402, [454], [461]
• Self-analyses, [87], [380]
• Self-correction in dreams, [411]
• Sensational intensity, [285]
• Sensations, gastric, [30]
• — muscular, [30]
• — nocturnal, [155]
• — of falling, [466]
• — of flying, [466]
• — of impeded movement, [311]
• — peripheral, [30]
• — physical, [30]
• — pneumatic, [30]
• — sexual, [30]
• Senseful psychological structures, [1]
• Sensory images, [186]
• — — hypnogogic, [185]
• — intensity, [306]
• — organs, psychic, [491]
• — stimuli, [17]–27, [187], [189], [454]
• — — (objective), [185]
• — — (organic), [71]
• — — (outer and inner), [66]
• — — (subjective), [185]
• Sexual anamnesis, [281]
• — dreams, [240]
• — etiology, [281]
• — — for psychoneuroses, [347]
• — organs and dreams, [185]
• — sensations, [30]
• — symbolism, [319]
• — symbols, [246], [248]
• — wish feelings, [480]
• Shakespeare quoted, [333]
• Siebeck, A., quoted, [48]
• Silberer, H., [41]
• Simon, B. M., [24], [27], [28], [31], [32], [112]
• Sleep, problems of, [4]
• — psychic state of, [468]
• Sources of affects, [382]
• — of dreams, [138]–259
• Somatic dream stimuli, [33]
• — exciting sources, [53]
• — origin of dreams, [64]
• — sources of dreams, [184]
• — theory of stimulation, [185]
• Spitta, W., [28], [41], [47], [50], [55], [75], [406];
  • quoted, [39], [46], [48], [58]
• Stekel, W., [78], [232], [241], [248], [251], [298], [313]
• — accidental stimuli, [185], [186]
• Stimuli of dreams, [16]–35
• — of perception, [426]
• — pain, [453]
• — physical, [71], [77]
• Stimuli, pleasure, [453]
• — psychic, [34]
• Strangeness of the dream, [1]
• Stricker, [364];
  • quoted, [48], [61]
• Structure of dream thoughts, [431]
• Strümpell, L., [16], [31], [36], [42], [47], [138], [154], [186], [188], [191];
  • quoted, [4], [5], [11], [14], [23], [27], [37], [45], [49]
• Study of the neuroses, [456]
• Stumpf, E. J. G., [81]
• Subjective sensory stimuli, [24]–27, [185]
• Supernatural dream content, [466]
• — origin of dreams, [3]
• Suppressed wishes, [199], [209]
• Suppression of the affects, [371], [372], [375]
• Sway of the dream, [11]
• Swimming in dreams, [239]
• Swoboda, H., [79], [140]–142
• Symbolic concealment, [310]
• — dream formations, [310]
• — — interpretation, [81], [316]
• — methods of interpreting dreams, [83]
• Symbolisation of bodily stimuli, [190]
• — of the body, [319]
• Symbolism in dreams, application of, [249]–259
• — sexual, [319]
• Symbols in the dream content, [246]
• — sexual, [246], [248]
• Synthesis of syllables, [278]
• Tabetic paralysis, [282]
• Tactile stimulus, [188]
• “Tannhauser,” quotation from, [272]
• Taylor, B., [269]
• Temporal relations of life, [346]
• Theoretical value of the study of dreams, [492]
• Theories of the dream, [61]–73
• Theory of dream life, [46]
• — of dreams, [127]
• — of hysteria, [473]
• — of hysterical paralysis, [444]
• — of Leuret, [419]
• — of organic stimulation, [310]
• — of partial waking, [24]
• — of psychoneurotic symptoms, [449]
• — of somatic stimuli, [188]
• — of the psychoneuroses, [480]
• — of wish-fulfilment, [374], [376], [435], [458]
• — of the emotions, [371]
• Theory of the neuroses, [374]
• Thirst dreams, [105]
• Thomayer, [74]
• Thought identity, [477]
• Tissié, Ph., [28], [29], [38], [74], [113];
  • quoted, [27], [34]
• Toothache dreams, [189], [190]
• Tooth-exciting dreams, [72]
• Trains of thought revealed by analysis, [263]
• Transferred dream-wishes, [455]
• Transformation of affects, [479]
• — of ideas, [424]
• Transforming activity of dreams, [327]
• — ideas into plastic images, [435]
• Transvaluation of psychic values, [306], [402], [409]
• Trenck, Baron, [113]
• Typical dreams, [31], [131], [203]–259
• Unburdening properties of dreams, [66]
• Unconscious end-presentations, [418]
• — excitations, [440], [448], [460]
• — ideation, [459]
• — phantasies, [486]
• — psychic life, [220]
• — — process, [485]
• — wishes, [438], [443], [457], [479]–493
• “Undesired” ideas, [85]
• Undesirable presentations, [59], [60], [414]
• Unmoral period of childhood, [212]
• Unwished-for presentations, [418]
• Urinary organs and dreams, [185]
• Variegated dream images, [189]
• Verbal compositions of the dream, [283]
• Visceral sensations, [191]
• Visions, [4], [424]
• Visual excitation, [434]
• — pictures, [41]
• Vold, J. Mourly, [32]
• Volition, [312]
• Volkelt, J., [30], [71], [113], [189], [191], [319];
  • quoted, [11], [20], [34], [49], [54], [59], [69], [70], [72], [190]
• Waking caused by the dream, [452]–458
• “Weaver’s Masterpiece,” quotation from, [265]
• Weed, Sarah, [113]
• Weed-Hallam, [138]
• Weygandt, W., [5], [20], [28], [34], [49];
  • quoted, [105]
• Why dreams are forgotten, [35]
• Winckler, Hugo, [82]
• Wish-dreams, [113], [123], [128], [219]
• — — masochistic, [135]
• Wishes, forbidden, [209]
• — foreconscious, [456]
• — repressed, [199]
• — suppressed, [199], [209]
• — unconscious, [438], [443], [457], [479], [493]
• Wish-fulfilment of the dream, [76], [104], [205], [229], [233], [389], [423], [435]–452
• — theory of, [374], [376], [458]
• Word-play and dream activity, [315]
• Work of displacement, [283]–288
• Wundt, [23], [34], [48], [49], [71], [187], [188];
  • quoted, [75]
• — theory of, [198]
• Zola, E., [182]

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[A]. Translated by A. A. Brill (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company).

[B]. Cf. the works of Ernest Jones, James J. Putnam, the present writer, and others.

[C]. For examples demonstrating these facts, cf. my work, Psychoanalysis; its Theories and Practical Application, W. B. Saunders’ Publishing Company, Philadelphia & London.

[D]. To the first publication of this book, 1900.