Freud's Dream of Interpretation

Ken Frieden is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures and in the Comparative Literature Program at Emory University. He has authored Genius and Monologue, which traces the evolution of inspiration and individuality since ancient times.

• Foreword Preface Introduction 1. Freud: Interpreter and Seducer Freud's Path to Dreams Against the Past Interpretation by Correspondence and Displacement "Free" Association Revisions of Secondary Revision Freud's Monopoly and the Dream Facade Occupation and Resistance 2. Joseph and Daniel: Disguises and Interpretive Power "Will You Rule Over Us?" "Do Not Interpretations Belong to God? Tell Me" "As He Interpreted to Us, So It Was" "This Is Your Dream" "Worship the Image of Gold" "Mene Mene Teqel Upharsin" "Your God... Will Deliver You" 3. Bar Hedia and R. Ishmael: Battles of Interpretation "A Dream That Is Not Interpreted..." "All Dreams Follow the Mouth" "Your Father Has Left You Money in Cappadocia" "Because of Your Mouth..." 4. Freud: Demystification and Denial Dreams of Prophecy and Telepathy The Prophetic Interpreter Languages of Dreams Dreams of Wordplay An Absurd Decree The Grand Verneinung Conclusion References Indices

"I particularly like the book's lucidity, the clarity of its argument, and the author's facility with Freud." —Susan Handelman