September 3rd, 2010 
admin 
Product Description
This is the famous book about dreams by Sigmund Freud.Amazon.com Review
Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud ad… More >>
Posted in 
For all those who need to get their baloney straight from the horse’s mouth, this book is all the Freud you need to decide: visionary or fraud. I find it incredible that thousands, even millions, of seemingly intelligent people have fallen for something with so little objective evidence in its favor.
Although Freud had little, if any, sense of humor, he is unintentionally funny in this book. For that reason, if for no other, it deserves at least an attempted reading.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is a new translation (2006) of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. I hope someone qualified might soon comment on the merits or significance of this new translation. Meanwhile, the Editorial Review information offered for this book comes from an earlier edition of a different translation of Freud’s work, FWIW. And the second paragraph in the editorial review prelim is entirely inappropriate–it’s for another book altogether.
I give Freud’s book (not the translation) a low rating because it is misleading. It’s not about the interpretation of dreams in general, but more specifically it’s, covertly of course, about Freud’s own dreams. More basically, it’s about “infantile memories” he claimed dreams concealed. (For more explanation of this point, one could consult “If Freud’s Theory Be True…” in Psychological Reports (1992, 70, 611-620), which would explain how Freud himself tells us his book is not about what it appears to be about.
Rating: 1 / 5
No philosopher has had such a profound influence on all subsequent thought as Sigmund Freud. His theories, particularly those of this volume, have become such an integral part of daily discourse that most people fail to even realize how much they buy into the psychobabble. However, Freud must be viewed as a philosopher, not as the scientist he believed he was. His conclusions are either backed by superficial research or, more commonly, no research at all, and this book’s most famous theory, that of the Oediple Complex, is argued (poorly) through literary examples, not scientific ones. The fact is that Freud is simply following a long-standing METAPHYSICAL tradition of dream interpretation which goes all the way back to Ancient Greece and Biblical tribes. All he does is invent his own gods to send the messages. The underlying motives for the book are quite obvious, though often overlooked–this paranoid cocaine addict wished to deal with his own psychoses by projecting them onto everyone else. We laugh at comedians when they tell of common acts of stupidity, mainly because we are relieved that we’re not the only ones who do such things. Similarly, Freud, who fell in love with his mother when he saw her naked at age 2, concluded that everyone must want to sleep with their mother, because to do otherwise would be to admit that he was mad, which indeed he was. This is not to say that the book should not be read, only that it should be read because of its influence, and not because its ideas have any validity whatsoever.
Rating: 1 / 5
It is very hard to find the logic in believing Freud when he himself was quite mentally disturbed and sick. Freud rationalizes things to death, he gives no hope, and removes all magic from the world. It seems, finally, that Freud is falling into disrepute after some years of popularity. He was never correct, only popular. If you want really important work in the field, then read Karl Gustav Jung, because, as I mentioned in the title, Freud is not worth reading.
Rating: 1 / 5
ALTHOUGH THIS IS THE FIRST BOOK THAT I HAVE READ THAT WAS WRITTEN BY SIGMUND FREUD, I FEEL THAT THIS BOOK WAS REALLY GOOD. HIS THEORY ABOUT THE ED, EGO AND THE SUPER EGO WAS VERY INTERESTING. OVER ALL I FEEL THAT THIS BOOK WAS REALLY GOOD, AND I WOULD TRULY RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN DREAMS.
Rating: 5 / 5