Simon’s Reviews > The Interpretation of Dreams > Status Update

going to finish more books I started a long time ago but forgot about basically, if I could do that with Alejandro Jodorowsky's book on tarot last year I can surely do this as well

Freud goes into detail analysing his own dreams and those of his patients, demonstrating how they give shape to some repressed or at least unconscious desire of the dreamer using the language of their life experiences... very illuminating into not just Freud's own life and career (several of his dreams clearly representing revenge against people who have treated him unjustly) but also 19th century Austrian society

interesting how Freud sums up in such detail what different human cultures have made of dream interpretation: From the importance ancient Greeks+Romans placed upon the discipline to 19th century science dismissing dreams as the brain's purposeless and directionless disposal of thoughts and memories that do not fit elsewhere. Freud arguing here that dreams do have purpose and direction, which was radical then...

now that I have rekindled my interest in dream interpretation last year I figure I should give this a re-read, I might be misunderstanding some key aspects of C. G. Jung and James Hillman's approaches to the discipline because I remember so little of Sigmund Freud's