Niederland, W.G. (1958). Dreams in Folklore: By Sigmund Freud and D. E. Oppenheim. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1958. 111 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 27:576-578.

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(1958). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 27:576-578

Dreams in Folklore: By Sigmund Freud and D. E. Oppenheim. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1958. 111 pp.

Review by: William G. Niederland Author Information

By a happy coincidence, Lewin's brilliant essay on Descartes' dream series appears in print at the same time as a hitherto unpublished study by Freud, which is also devoted to the interpretation of certain dreams from literature. In view of the tendency of some contemporary analysts to avoid the use of psychoanalytic tools in elucidating problems or topics of applied analysis, the simultaneous publication of both volumes at this time is especially welcome.

The story of the rescue and discovery of the manuscript is in itself worth recording. Written jointly by Freud and Oppenheim, one of the early if transitory followers of psychoanalysis, sometime between 1909 and 1911, the manuscript traveled from Vienna to the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Second World War, sojourned in Australia for some years after the war, and finally reached New York late in 1956. It was rescued from oblivion by the efforts of Drs. Bernard L. Pacella and K. R. Eissler and thus came into t

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