The Interpretation of Dreams · What Did They Read?

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#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung

Lex Fridman Podcast, 17 September 2026. The book comes up at 2 hr 28 min in.

Andrew Scull describes The Interpretation of Dreams as marking an important step forward in Freud's theoretical development, Freud having come to regard dreams as an arena where hidden, suppressed memories reemerge in disguised form in one's dream life.

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