The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The book introduces Freud's theory of the
unconscious with respect to
dream interpretation, and also first discusses what would later become the theory of the
Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book at least eight times and, in the third edition, added an extensive section which treated dream symbolism very literally, following the influence of
Wilhelm Stekel. Freud said of this work, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime."