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Die Traumdeutung is one of the groundbreaking books of the 20th century. Translated into English as The Interpretation of Dreams, this book argues that dreams are both interpretable and meaningful. Unlike the psychiatrists of his days, Freud held that dreams are expressions of the subject and thus positioned himself closer to the ancient conception of dreams than to the views of the positivistic science of his days. He emphasized that dreams represent not so much an objective reality but rather the symbolic manifestation of the truth of the subject’s unconscious, a “symptom” of a history.