On Dreams (Dover Thrift Editions: Psychology)

Very good book! I recommend reading this whether you are a psych major or not. I'm not saying that I agree with Freud, but good reading.

outstandingly clear, concise, scientific, helpful personally and professionally.

This book was just what i needed for my class that required this it. thank you for this great book.

This Review refers to the paperback edition of On Dreams (Dover Thrift Editions), composed by Sigmund Freud and as translated by M. D. Eder. Freud's On Dreams is, quite simply, a downsized Interpretation of Dreams simplified so that non-psychologists are able to understand the basics of his theories concerning the matter. In this particular work, Freud makes an effort to explain what dreams are and how they relate to the dreamer. He also explains his thoughts on how the mind constructs dreams during their production, as well as how to analyze their content and meaning. Also included is a rather short biography about the author. On Dreams presents wholly compelling arguments as to how the mind designs, produces, contorts, and presents the dream content. The work describes how the dreamer's psyche, he hypothesizes, will normally block the dream content while in a conscious state and due to the weakened state of this during sleep, these thoughts give birth to dreams. Freud's work is in older English, which may make it slightly troublesome for the more modern readers to grasp. However, the work is in good composition and properly conveys his ideas and hypotheses concerning dreams. Freud also seems to have a tendency to state many educated guesses as fact in this work; therefore, the reader must keep an open mind regarding the presented concepts. The translator appears to have reproduced the text into English quite true to the original. Although, it would be desirable to read a different translation, in order to verify that the work's translation properly presents Freud's initial ideas. Freud's theories have largely become the basics of modern psychology, for better or for worse, and are therefore all completely relevant and needed to understand the topic of psychology. On Dreams is an interesting look at what, exactly, dreams are and how they work. The overall recommendation would be that an individual interested in psychology read works by Freud and his contemporaries, however to mix those works with more modern concepts and ideas so as not to get an older, and somewhat outdated, view of the said concepts.

Exceptional reading and highly recommended!

Great!!

Interesting but he's not a real scientist.

Love it.

Freud's thoughts are valuable and worthy of the attention of anyone inclined to read them. However, as a technical writer in the realms of science and technology, I can never understand why he always felt the need to be unnecessarily wordy. "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it well enough yourself." Someone should have given him a plaque with that quote to be hung on his office door. It seems to me that the father of psychoanalytics, may have suffered from a classic case of overcompensating for impostor syndrome.

For those who find Freud's complete works on dreams, too technical; this is a crisp version of just the most important concepts. A good place to start if one plans to invest in the details later. In the introduction it is said that Freud himself calls this book "On Dreams" - the more accessible version.

Love it!!! But it's a pretty long, hard to understand and boring at times. But if you manage to get through it, it offer great advice on "understanding oneself" through dreams 👍

Easy to read through, Freudian thoughts not as rampant as wanted.