The Interpretation of Dreams
An abridged version called "On Dreams" was published in 1901 as part of Lowenfeld and Kurella's "Grenzfragen des Nerven und Seelenlebens". It was re-published in 1911 in slightly larger form as a book. "On Dreams" is also included in the 1953 edition and the second part of Freud's work on dreams, Volume Five, "The Interpretation of Dreams II and On Dreams". It follows chapter seven in "The Interpretation of Dreams" and in this edition, is fifty-three pages in length. There are thirteen chapters in total and Freud directs the reader to "The Interpretation of Dreams" for further reading throughout "On Dreams," in particular, in the final chapter. Immediately after its publication, Freud considered "On Dreams" as a shortened version of "The Interpretation of Dreams". The English translation of "On Dreams" was first published in 1914 and the second English publication in the James Strachey translation from 1952. Freud investigates the subject of "displacement" and our inability to recognize our dreams. In chapter VI, page 659, he states: "It is the process of displacement which is chiefly responsible for our being unable to discover or recognize them in the dream-content" and he considers the issue of displacement in chapter VIII, page 671 as: "the most striking of the dream-work."