The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung)

The Interpretation of Dreams is Sigmund Freud's own primary founding text of psychoanalytic dream theory, and this record states an honest bibliographic detail rather than a simplified one: the book carries 1900 on its title page though it was actually issued in November 1899, and the 1900 date is used here as the conventional citation rather than presented as the literal date of publication. As a primary text it is authoritative for what Freud himself argued about dream interpretation and the unconscious at this founding stage of his theory, checkable directly against the text, not for whether psychoanalytic dream theory is empirically supported, a scientific question this primary text does not itself settle. Use it to establish Freud's own original dream theory; a claim about its later reception or empirical standing needs a separate source.