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On November 19, 1899, about two weeks after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud wrote impatiently to his friend Wilhelm Fliess in Berlin, “It is a thankless task to enlighten mankind a little. No one has yet told me that he feels indebted to me for having learned something new from the dream book and for having been introduced to a world of new problems” (Masson 1985: 387).⋆ Although it took longer than two weeks for the world to realize that Freud had “enlightened mankind a little” with his “Dream Book,” we now understand that he did indeed introduce to our century a “world of new problems.”
There is at least one spot in every dream at which it is unplumbable—a navel, as it were, that is its point of contact with the unknown.
—Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
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Jonte-Pace, D. (2001). Turning Away at the Navel of the Dream. In: Bulkeley, K. (eds) Dreams. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08545-0_20
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