Dreams, the Final Frontier

  Abstract This paper explores Freud’s Jewish upbringing, and the effect it had on his dream theory. While Freud openly disagreed and disapproved of dream interpretation in the bible, he still studied various other Jewish texts which line up with his beliefs. This paper discusses Freud’s theories on dreams, and Jewish theories on dreams. Some match up and some do not. The argument of this paper is that Freud’s dream theory was influenced by his Jewish upbringing and sometimes directly by Jewish texts. Nonetheless, Freud rejected any parts of Judaism that could not be explained through science.  Citations Berg, Philip S, and Michael Berg. The Zohar: The Complete Original Aramaic Text . New York: The Kabbalah Centre, 2007. Epstein, Isidore. The Babylonian Talmud . London: Soncino Press, 1948. Print. Freud, Sigmund, and James Strachey. The Interpretation of Dreams . Avon Books, 1998.  Frieden, Ken. Freud's Dream of Interpretation, State University of New York Press, 1990. ProQuest Ebo