‘On Dreams’, last referred to by Sigmund Freud on 14th October 1900 in Letter 139 to Wilhelm Fliess, was published 1901a, translated by James Strachey, SE V (1952)

Editor’s (James Strachey) Note: p631-633: available below

Text : p633-685 : Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /freud (October 1900)

Also bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com /Freud-Philosophy (ON DREAMS, Über den Traum, Download)

Bibliography for SEIV & SE V, available www.Freud2Lacan /Freud-Philosophy (Bibliographies, Indices)

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THE STANDARD EDITION OF THE COMPLETE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORKS OF

SIGMUND FREUD

Translated from the German under the General Editorship of
JAMES STRACHEY
In Collaboration with
ANNA FREUD
Assisted by
ALIX STRACHEY and ALAN TYSON
VOLUME V
(1900-1901)

The Interpretation of Dreams

(Second Part)
and

On Dreams

LONDON
THE HOGARTH PRESS
THE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS

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ON DREAMS
(1901)
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page 631

EDITOR’S NOTE

(a) German Editions:

1901 ‘Über den Traum’. First published as part (pp. 307-344) of

a serial publication, ‘Grenzfragen des Nerven-und Seelen-

Iebens’, edited by L. Löwcnfeld and H. Kurella, Wiesbaden: Bergmann.

1911 2nd ed. (Issued as a separate brochure, enlargcd.) Same publishcrs. Pp. 44.

1921 3rd ed. Munich and Wiesbaden: Bergmann. Pp. 44.

1925 In Freud’s ‘Gesammelte Schriften’, 3 , 189-256. Leipzig, Vienna and Zurich: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Vcrlag.

1931 In Freud’s collectivc volume ‘Sexualtherie und Traumlehre’, 246-307. Same publishers.

1942 In Freud’s ‘Gesammelte Werke’, 2 and 3 , 643-700. London: Imago Publishing Co.

(b) English Translations:

1914 By M. D. Eder (with introduction by W. L. Mackenzie). London: Heinemann. New York: Rebman. Pp.xxxii 110 Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /texts by request. See www.LacanianWorks.org /Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s ‘On Dreams (1901)’ : by W. Leslie MacKenzie : 1914

1952 By James Strachey. London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis. Pp. viii + 80. New York: Norton. Pp. 120. Available www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /freud (October 1900) & bilingual www.Freud2Lacan.com /Freud-Philosophy

The present translation is a revised reprint of the one published in 1952.

Only three or four months after the publication of ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ the notion of writing a shortened version of his book was already in Freud’s mind. Fliess had evidently written to suggest something of the sort, for in a letter of April 4th,

1900 (Freud, 1950a, Letter l32), Freud rejected the proposal on the ground, among others, that he had ‘already promised to let Löwenfeld have an essay of the same kind’. Hc also commented on his distaste for embarking on such a job so soon after finishing (page 632) the large book. Evidently this reluctance persisted, for on May 20 (ibid., Letter 136) he mentions that he has not even started the ‘brochure’, and on July l0 (ibid., Letter I38) announces that he has put it off till October, His last reference to it in the Fliess correspondence is on October 14,1900 (ibid., Letter 139), where he remarks that he is writing the essay ‘without any real enjoyment’, since his mind is full of material for the ‘Psychopathology of Everyday Life’ (which was to be his next production). In this latter work, incidentally there is a reference (near the end of Chapter VII) to the essay On Dreams and to the question of whether the issue of a résumé might interfere with the sales of the big book.

As will be seen, the only addition of importance made by Freud in the later issues of the essay was the section on symbolism introduced into the second edition.

Citations & Related Texts – see www.LacanianWorks.org

Notes on p19-27 of Seminar VII – 25th November 1959 – Reading Group of 27th October 2012 (Dream of ‘strawberries’ & of ‘dead father’) : 27th October 2012 : Julia Evans

Tracking, Dream – Child aged 10 months dream of strawberries (31st October 1897) Sigmund Freud : 16th November 2012 : Julia Evans

Introduction to Sigmund Freud’s ‘On Dreams (1901)’ : 1914 : W. Leslie MacKenzie