THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS is abook by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.The book introduces Freud's theory ofthe unconscious with respect to dreaminterpretation, and also first discusseswhat would later become the theory ofthe Oedipus complex.Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of"wish fulfillment" - attempts by theunconscious to resolve a conflict of somesort, whether something recent orsomething from the recesses of the past(later in Beyond the Pleasure Principle,Freud would discuss dreams which donot appear to be wish-fulfillment).Because the information in theunconscious is in an unruly and oftendisturbing form, a "censor" in thepreconscious will not allow it to passunaltered into the conscious.