Irma's injection
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Irma's injection is the name Sigmund Freud
gave to a dream of his. It is the dream with which he opens his seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams
, and which forms the linchpin of the analysis in that book.
Freud describes the dream, which he records as taking place on the night of July 23–24 1895, thus:
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
gave to a dream of his. It is the dream with which he opens his seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The first edition begins:.The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation...
, and which forms the linchpin of the analysis in that book.
Freud describes the dream, which he records as taking place on the night of July 23–24 1895, thus: