Status Updates From تفسير الأحلام

This weirdly might be one of the best books I’ve read. It’s mixed, the bad parts are laughable but the good parts feel perceptive and brilliant enough to put it over the top.

Some of it is coming together a little better. I confess I’m skimming only very slightly—the book-skimmer’s police, who bring charges against those who don’t really read books, have very little against me, not even a misdemeanor. Freud’s examples are often absurd but he’s on to something

Freud’s dream interpretations, especially when based upon punning and word games, seem far-fetched. I’m more impressed with what I can make out of his comments mapping out the mechanisms and automatisms of the unconscious than when he provides examples. Which would seem to invert science.

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