Description
The sixth edition of Die Traumdeutung, or The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud.
Octavo, [viii], 478pp, [2pp]. Publishers cloth-backed boards, printed green-gray paper-covered boards. Light spotting to spine, some separation along the seams. Text in German. Bookplate affixed to front endpaper. From the library of HF Norman, MD. (Grinstein 10614)
Comments: This book was first published in 1900. It introduces the idea of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation and discusses attributes that would later become the theory of the Oedipus Complex. This copy belonged to Haskell Norman, an American geophysicist, known for developing measurements of the viscosity of the earth’s mantle.