For four years he carefully analyzed his own dreams, with startling results. Freud: My libido toward my mother was awakened, on the occasion of a journey during which we must have spent the night ...

In 1897 Sigmund Freud began his famous course of self-analysis. He had already noticed that dreams played an important role in his analysis of neurotic and "hysterical" patients. As he encouraged ...

Despite his upbringing, sudden poverty and early scientific encounters lead Sigmund away from religion ... who interpreted the Pharaoh's dreams, and Freud later became the interpreter of dreams.