Recommended Reading
April 1, 2015 (last updated on April 1, 2015)
Freud by Max Halberstadt
Tableau asked Jonathan Lear and Françoise Meltzer, If you had to recommend just one of Freud’s works as an introduction, what would it be?
Lear: “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” (1914). I think if only this essay of Freud’s survived we could figure out everything else ourselves.
Meltzer: I’d say The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), or the dream book, as it’s called. Freud used his own dreams to explain his theory, which took a lot of guts. And his close analysis of his dreams is a wonderful method of reading texts in general.