In this book, Rank proposed that the child's pre-Oedipal relationship to the mother was the prototype of the therapeutic relationship between analyst and patient.
Rank's emphasis on the importance of the individual'Äôs subjective experience stems from his own background as a playwright and theorist, making this text not only a scholarly work but a personal journey into the roots of human creativity ...
This is the first English translation of Rank's masterpiece of dream interpretation, originally published in 1910 as "Ein Traum, der sich selbst deutet" in the journal Jahrbuch fur Psychoanalytische und Psychopathologische Forschungen, 2(2) ...