FOREWORD

TO THE THIRD ENGLISH EDITION

IN 1909 G. Stanley Hall invited me to Clark University, in
Worcester, to give the first lectures on psychoanalysis. In the
same year Dr. Brill published the first of his translations of my
writings, which were soon followed by further ones. If psycho
analysis now plays a rôle in American intellectual life, or if it
does so in the future, a large part of this result will have to
be attributed to this and other activities of Dr. Brill’s.

His first translation of The Interpretation of Dreams appeared
in 1913. Since then much has taken place in the world, and
much has been changed in our views about the neuroses.
This book, with the new contribution to psychology which
surprised the world when it was published (1900), remains
essentially unaltered. It contains, even according to my
present-day judgment, the most valuable of all the discoveries
it has been my good fortune to make. Insight such as this
falls to one’s lot but once in a lifetime.

FREUD

Vienna
March 15, 1931