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    Dreams in Folklore
    Dreams in Folklore
    Dreams in Folklore
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    Dreams in Folklore

    By Sigmund Freud and D. E. Oppenheim

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    David Ernst Oppenheim, a classics scholar and professor of Greek and Latin at a Vienna school, had begun pursuing an interest in the interrelatedness of mythology, folklore and psychoanalytic concepts, and attended lectures given by Freud in 1906. In 1909, he sent to Freud a paper he had written about mythology in which he revealed a knowledge of psychoanalysis. He was subsequently invited to join Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in 1910, where he gave talks on the fire as a sexual symbol and on suicides at school age.

    The manuscript for Dreams in Folklore, to which Oppenheim contributed the folklore and Freud the commentary, was written in 1911. It remained in the possession of his family, before finally being published in 1958.

    Along with the English translation of a letter from Freud to Oppenheim, and the manuscript itself, Dreams in Folklore also includes the complete original paper in German, “Träume im Folklore.”
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    PublisherMuriwai Books
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781789124972
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    Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud (Born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis.Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. He was appointed a university lecturer in neuropathology in 1885 and became a professor in 1902.In creating psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association (in which patients report their thoughts without reservation and in whichever order they spontaneously occur) and discovered transference (the process in which patients displace on to their analysts feelings derived from their childhood attachments), establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freuds redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of his own and his patients' dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious as an agency disruptive of conscious states of mind.Ideas:Early Works:Freud began his study of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1873. He took almost nine years to complete his studies, due to his interest in neurophysiological research, specifically investigation of the sexual anatomy of eels..Seduction Theory:In the early 1890s, Freud used a form of treatment based on the one that Breuer had described to him, modified by what he called his "pressure technique" and his newly developed analytic technique of interpretation and reconstruction. According to Freud's later accounts of this period, as a result of his use of this procedure most of his patients in the mid-1890s reported early childhood sexual abuse. He believed these stories, which he used as the basis for his seduction theory, but then he came to believe that they were fantasies. He explained these at first as having the function of "fending off" memories of infantile masturbation, but in later years he wrote that they represented Oedipal fantasies, stemming from innate drives that are sexual and destructive in nature.

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      Text originally published in 1958 under the same title.

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      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      DREAMS IN FOLKLORE

      BY

      SIGMUND FREUD

      AND

      D. E. OPPENHEIM

      Translated from the German

      and the Original German Text

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 3

      PREFACE BY BERNARD L. PACELLA 4

      LETTER FROM SIGMUND FREUD TO D. E. OPPENHEIM 6

      BRIEF VON SIGMUND FREUD AN D. E. OPPENHEIM 7

      PART I—DREAMS IN FOLKLORE 10

      EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION 10

      DREAMS IN FOLKLORE 12

      I—PENIS SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS OCCURRING IN FOLKLORE 12

      A DREAM INTERPRETATION 12

      SONG OF THE EARTHWORM 14

      A BAD DREAM 15

      II—FECES SYMBOLISM AND RELATED DREAM ACTIONS 18

      DREAM GOLD 18

      A LIVELY DREAM 19

      HE SHAT ON THE GRAVE 20

      DREAM AND REALITY 21

      THE PEASANT’S ASSUMPTION TO HEAVEN 22

      MUTTONHEAD! 25

      THE DREAM OF THE TREASURE 25

      THE LIGHT OF LIFE 26

      FROM FRIGHT 27

      THE RING OF FIDELITY 28

      IT’S NO USE CRYING OVER SPILT MILK! 30

      PART II—TRÄUME IM FOLKLORE 32

      I.—PENIS-SYMBOLIK IN FOLKLORETRÄUMEN. 32

      PROPHETISCHE UND PSYCHOLOGISCHE TRAUMDEUTUNG 32

      No. 820: Eine Traumdeutung 32

      II. KOTSYMBOLIK UND ENTSPRECHENDE TRA UMHANDLUNGEN 39

      Traumgold 39

      Tarasevsky: Geschlechtsleben des ukrainischen Bauernvolkes 40

      No. 15: Lebhafter Traum 40

      S. 346 No. 737: Er schiss aufs Grab 41

      Traum und Wirklichkeit 42

      Geschlechtsleben des ukrainischen Bauernvolkes 43

      Du Stück Vieh 46

      Der Traum vom Schatz 47

      Das Lebenslicht 48

      Vor Schrecken 49

      Der Ring der Treue 50

      Geschlechtsleben des ukrainischen Bauernvolkes 52

      REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 55

      PREFACE BY BERNARD L. PACELLA

      Sometime in 1909 Professor Ernst Oppenheim, a student of classical mythology and literature, sent Freud the reprint of his article on folklore. It contained references to psychoanalytic observations, and included a dedication to Freud. We infer these facts from Freud’s reply to D. E. Oppenheim (see pp. 13-16). Freud thanked Oppenheim and warmly invited him to collaborate in a study of the relationship between folklore and psychoanalysis. Oppenheim accepted this offer of collaboration, as attested by the joint authorship of the Dreams in Folklore.

      Except for a few short marginal notations and inserts by Oppenheim, the manuscript was entirely handwritten by Freud during the early part of 1911. He used, in addition, typescript material presumably furnished by Oppenheim, which Freud inserted in the appropriate places in the text. Strachey, in the Editor’s Note regarding the English translation, discusses in detail the respective contributions to the manuscript of each author. After Freud prepared the manuscript, which consists of 24 large, 10x15, sheets, he left it in the possession of Oppenheim for his comments. Shortly thereafter, Oppenheim dissociated himself from Freud and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, and presumably never returned the manuscript to Freud, never published it, and, so far as we know, never made its contents public. There is no direct reference by Freud to this paper in his published writings, nor in the psychoanalytic literature, although Ernst Kris{1} as well as Strachey note that Freud made a reference to Oppenheim’s interest in folklore dreams in a footnote contained only in the 1911 edition of The Interpretation of Dreams.

      So far as is known, Dreams in Folklore is the only unpublished Freud paper of any significant length, and with a few exceptions{2} is the only original manuscript Freud wrote prior to 1914 which is preserved, all the others having been destroyed by him when he moved his office.

      I first became aware of the existence of this manuscript about five years ago when Dr. Jacob Shatzky, formerly Chief Librarian at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, informed me that he knew of the existence of an unknown and unpublished early Freud paper which was not in England nor in the possession of the Freud family, and which he was in the process of acquiring. I would assume he had reference to Folklore in Dreams. However, several analysts, including Dr. Ernst Kris, had known of the existence of this manuscript for a number of years, but were unaware of its location, and uncertain as to the exact contents. Dr. K. R. Eissler ultimately discovered the location of the manuscript which was in the possession of Oppenheim’s daughter, Mrs. Liffman, who was living in Australia, and had obtained it after the death of her parents. Mrs. Liffman arranged, through the services of a New York dealer of rare books and manuscripts, to have the manuscript sent to New York, where, with the invaluable assistance of Dr. Eissler, we were able to acquire the paper for the Freud Archives.

      The first presentation of Folklore in Dreams before a psychoanalytic group was at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in Chicago in May, 1957, where a summary of its contents was read. The full text of the manuscript and of Freud’s letter to Oppenheim are published here for the first time.

      The German version of the manuscript is printed exactly as originally written by Freud. A few errors in spelling in addition to some wrong references, which Freud undoubtedly would have corrected prior to publication, are therefore left intact. In the English version, however, these errors have been corrected by Mr. Strachey.

      Parts of the manuscript and particularly some of the pencilled marginal notes, which had partially faded, were difficult to decipher. We are indebted to Mrs. Eva J. Meyer, Librarian of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, for her very helpful assistance in these matters, in addition to the preparation of the German typescript from the original writing.

      We are very grateful to Mr. Strachey for his supervision of the English translation of the paper which was done by A. M. O. Richards, and for the thoroughness of his research

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