The Interpretation of Dreams like Freud's other works it posits a "semantics of desire". The mythologist Joseph Campbell described the book as an "epochal work", noting that it was "based on insights derived from years devoted to the fantasies of neurotics". Max Schur, Freud's physician and friend, has provided evidence that the first dream that Freud analyzed, his so-called "Irma dream" was not very disguised, but actually closely portrayed a medical disaster of Emma Steinbeck, one of Freud's patients. The psychologist Hans Eysenck, writing in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), argued that the dreams Freud cites not only do not support
Winter of Our Dreams the late 1970s Duigan wrote a script called "Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain" about a European anti-nuclear campaigner who comes to Australia and meets a 60s radical turned yuppie. The film was never made but the former radical character was re used in "Winter of Our Dreams". There were three weeks of rehearsals and five weeks of shooting in Kings Cross and Balmain. "Winter of Our Dreams" was popular, grossing $959,000 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $3,107,160 in 2009 dollars. Winter of Our Dreams Winter of Our Dreams is a 1981 Australian