Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never c
eased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowled
ged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to unlocking the human mind, a tas
k which has become essential to man's survival in the twentieth century, as scie
nce and technology have rushed ahead of our ability to cope with their consequen
ces. Freud saw that man is at war with himself and often unable to tolerate too
much reality. He propounded the theory that dreams are the contraband representa
tions of the beast within man, smuggled into awareness during sleep. In Freudian
interpretation, the analysis of dreams is the key to unlocking the secrets of t
he unconscious mind.
