In 1897 Sigmund Freud began his famous course of self-analysis. He had already noticed that dreams played an important role in his analysis of neurotic and "hysterical" patients. As he encouraged them ...

The word “dream” is often used to convey longing or aspiration in a metaphorical sense: In your dreams. Dream on. A dream come true. But a dream can also serve as an avenue that enables us to achieve ...

In 1909, while traveling by steamship to give lectures at Clark University in the United States, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung passed the time by sharing and interpreting each other’s dreams. This was ...

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In an autobiographical tour de force that melds memoir with sophisticated science writing, eminent Harvard psychiatrist and neuroscientist Hobson (The Dreaming Brain, etc.) analyzes 13 of his own ...

In “The Tobacconist,” set in 1937 Vienna, Sigmund Freud (Bruno Ganz, in one of his last screen roles) never says, “Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.” This is to the film’s credit; much of director ...