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title: "Dreams are wish-fulfilment"
date: 2017-02-22
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:14:10+01:00
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url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/richard-gerstl-sigmund-freud-the-interpretation-of-dreams-richard-gerstl-context-en/"
description: "When Sigmund Freud’s “Die Traumdeutung” (The Interpretation of Dreams) was published in 1900, Richard Gerstl was just 17 years old. He was one of the first to buy it."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Header_Richard_Gerstl_und_Sigmund_Freud.jpg"
language: "en-US"
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# Dreams are wish-fulfilment