"[These letters] are the earliest primary source available on Freud's childhood and the only surviving documentation of his adolescence. Wr.

"Sigmund Freud's relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud's publishing house; and after several years helping Freud update his masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, Rank contributed two chapters. His was the only other name ever to be listed on the title page. This complete collection of the known correspondence between the two brings to life their twenty-year collaboration and their painful break. The 250 letters compiled by E. James Lieberman and Robert Kramer humanize and dramatize psychoanalytic thinking, practice, and organization from 1906 through 1925. The letters concern not just the work and trenchant contemporaneous observations of Freud and Rank but also their friendships, supporters, rivals, families, travels, and other personal and prof

When scientifically interpreted, dreams disclose the unconscious conflicts that control our behaviors and our lives. That contention -- accepted by some, derided by others -- lies at the very core of Sigmund Freud's 1900 masterwork. This compellingly illustrated edition offers a uniquely multilayered approach to experiencing -- and analyzing -- Freud's achievement.