The Dream - Introduction into the Psychology of Dreams complicated works", which could then build up on his own work. "The Dream" was written in 1918, a time in which Europe had suffered from World War I for nearly four years already when it was finally about to come to an end. Furthermore, it originates from a period in which the field of psychology was greatly influenced by psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and like-minded psychologists. Especially since the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams ("Traumdeutung") in 1900, psychoanalysis in general, and dream interpretation in particular, became of increasing interest among professionals as well as laymen. Many people were
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities play." The story has been available in print since the author's death in two posthumously published collections of Schwartz's work, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories" (1978) and "Screeno: Stories and Poems" (2004). In a 2003 review of "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories" that appeared in "The Observer", Jason Cowley wrote, "[Schwartz] never wrote a finer story than 'Dreams'." The story tells of an unnamed young man who has a dream that he is in an old-fashioned movie theater in 1909. As he sits down to watch the film, he starts to realize that it is a