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 ...

And Pharaoh dreamed “he stood by the river. And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they grazed in the reed-grass.” But the seven thin cows that came ...

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 ...

When Sigmund Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” was first published in 1899, he initially believed it a flop — that it had failed to make any impact — and it took nearly a decade before a second ...

In the fall of 1899, Sigmund Freud published a book scientists reviled. “The Interpretation of Dreams” sold poorly. It was, as his biographer Peter Jay has noted, an “indefinable masterpiece” cobbling ...