Sigmund Freud was an Austrian-born neurologist and psychiatrist and the father of modern psychoanalysis. Freud's theory of dream analysis essentially held that the root of all dreams was wish fulfillment. In order to discover the meaning in one's dreams, it was necessary for the psychoanalyst to guide the patient through free association, gradually eliciting a storyline, which could then be professionally analyzed. This volume introduces Freud's theories on the unconscious mind and first discusses what he would later call the Oedipus complex.