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Sigmund FREUD

Die Traumdeutung [L'interprétation des rêves]

Franz Deuticke, Leipzig & Wien 1909, 15,5x23cm, relié.

Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]
 

Second edition partly original, revised with a new and unpublished preface.
 
Binding in half black cloth, spine decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper plates, blueish marbled endpapers, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
 
Some minor foxing, library listing in ink on the upper left corner of the half-title page.
This great theoretical text, today considered to be one of the most important of psychoanalysis, includes every  founding principle of the discipline (erotic nature of dreams, Oedipus complex and libido) and marks a considerable advance in the study and understanding of psychoneurosis.
This work, today Freud's best-selling, had a total of eight successive versions all supervised by the author and still issued by the same publisher, between 1900 and 1930.
In 1899 the 600 copies of the very first version came off the presses; symbolically dated 1900, they took more than eight years to sell, the work being addressed primarily to specialists.
Ten years later, the Freudian work started to be recognised and the second edition had a slightly more ambitious but still modest circulation with 1050 copies. Freud's desire is now to move away from his original experience of self-analysis to reach a wider readership by offering a small inventory of typical dreams, offering, according to his own expression, an authentic “dictionary of symbols”.
 
It is in this deeply reformed edition, that can therefore be considered a new first edition, that Freud adds the famous sentence summarising his psychoanalytical thesis: “The interpretation of dreams is the via regia to a knowledge of the unconscious element in our psychic life.”

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