Dream Interpretation as a Seminal Work of Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, The
In Die Traumdeutung as a fundamental work of psychoanalysis, the Austrian doctor Sigmund Freud in 1899 introduces a scientific dream theory that, in contrast to previous research, puts the connection between dreams and personal life in the foreground. For Freud, the meaning of every dream is the desire to wish. In our dreams, repressed current and childhood desires manifest, which are often formed in encrypted form, which is why Die Traumdeutung is also "the Via Regia [lat.:" The Königsweg "] to know the unconscious in soul life". Die Traumdeutung is one of the most read and influential books of the twentieth century