The Interpretation of Dreams: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Interpretation of Dreams, credited to Sigmund Freud, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. Read by Librivox Volunteers. A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in the dreaming state. Covering lots of topics, the Austrian psychoanalyst's work on dreams is worth reading for anyone who would get up with a question mark face, trying to remember the dream they had just moments before and trying to understand what message their dream was conveying, if at all it was. (Summary by sidhu177)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Interpretation of Dreams
• Author credits: Sigmund Freud
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 23:29:25

Catalogue topics

• dreams
• psychoanalysis
• dream analysis
• interpretation of dreams

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 00 - Preface to the Third, Second, and First Editions — 11:15
2. 01 - Chapter I: The Scientific Literature Dealing with the Problems of Dreams — 18:06
3. 02 - The Material of Dreams -- Memory in Dreams — 31:13
4. 03 - The Stimuli and Sources of Dreams — 18:57
5. 04 - Internal Sensory Excitations,Organic Somatic Stimuli and Psychical Sources of Stimulation — 38:40
6. 05 - Why Dreams Are Forgotten After Waking — 14:18
7. 06 - The Psychological Peculiarities of Dreams — 50:17
8. 07 - The Ethical Sense in Dreams — 18:01
9. 08 - Dream-Theories and the Function of the Dream — 43:01
10. 09 - The Relation between Dreams and Mental Diseases — 18:02
11. 10 - The method of interpreting dreams — 21:36
12. 11 - The Analysis of a Specimen Dream — 37:38
13. 12 - The dream as wish-fulfilment — 28:25
14. 13 - Distortion in Dreams - preliminary statement — 25:26
15. 14 - distortion in dreams - analysis — 34:04
16. 15 - Material and Sources of Dreams - Recent and Indifferent Impressions in the Dream — 8:26
17. 16 - Recent and Indifferent Impressions in the Dream - analysis — 44:39
18. 17 - Infantile material as source of Dream part 1 — 36:13
19. 18 - Infantile material as source of Dream part 2 — 31:42
20. 19 - The Somatic Sources of Dreams — 1:01:23
21. 20 - Typical Dreams - Embarrassing Dreams of Being Naked — 18:09
22. 21 - Typical Dreams - Dreams of the Death of Persons of Whom the Dreamer is Fond part 1 — 29:21
23. 22 - Typical Dreams - Dreams of the Death of Persons of Whom the Dreamer is Fond part 2 — 28:42
24. 23 - Typical Dreams - other types — 5:59

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