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| Abbreviations | viii |
| Preface | ix |
| Introduction | xv |
| Chapter 1. Freud up to 1895 | 1 |
| Childhood | 1 |
| Engagement and marriage (1882–86) | 21 |
| Biological and medical education | 32 |
| Freud and Charcot | 45 |
| Freud and Breuer | 56 |
| Freud and his time | 84 |
| Freud and Fliess | 108 |
| Chapter 2. The discovery of the meaning of dreams | 122 |
| Freud's Progress by July 1895 | 122 |
| The dream of ‘Irma's injection’ (July 24, 1895) | 131 |
| From the Irma dream to the death of Freud's father (July 1895 – October 1896) | 156 |
| Chapter 3. The discovery of the Oedipus complex | 175 |
| The notion of the ‘psychical apparatus’ | 175 |
| The ‘Rome’ dreams (January 1897) | 182 |
| Prelude to systematic self-analysis (February–May 1897) | 213 |
| Systematic self-analysis (June–November 1897) | 231 |
| Chapter 4. The discovery of the primal scene and the first version of the Interpretation of Dreams | 252 |
| Freud's first attempt to break away from Fliess (December 1897–February 1898) | 252 |
| Work on the Interpretation of Dreams gets under way (February–July 1898) | 265 |
| Dreams dreamt by Freud while writing the first version of The Interpretation of Dreams | 279 |
| The important dreams of the summer of 1898 | 324 |
| Chapter 5. The discovery of castration anxiety and the second version of the Interpretation of Dreams | 354 |
| Two disguised autobiographical dreams (August 1898?) | 354 |
| First analyses of name-forgetting | 358 |
| The working over of anxiety about death | 362 |
| The discovery of the condensation of words (autumn 1898) | 388 |
| Confrontation with the difference between the sexes | 405 |
| Further theoretical progress (January–May 1899) | 411 |
| The writing of the second version of The Interpretation of Dreams (May–September 1899) | 432 |
| Chapter 6. Freud's theory of the psychical apparatus in the Interpretation of Dreams and his further discoveries | 456 |
| The structure of The Interpretation of Dreams | 456 |
| Occasional self-analysis and continued work | 513 |
| Conclusion | 561 |
| Freud Bibliography | 586 |
SE | The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (1953–74), translated from the German under the general editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Ann |