The Dream - Introduction into the Psychology of Dreams of psychoanalysis. Being a pioneer in interpreting an alchemical text in a symbolic, psychologic and psychoanalytic way, Silberer formed a connecting link to Jung's symbolic, archetypal interpretation of dreams as well as his analytical theory. In his work "Mysterium Conjunctionis" Jung wrote: "Herbert Silberer has the merit of being the first to discover the secret threads that lead from alchemy to the psychology of the unconscious". The relationship between Silberer and Freud became increasingly tensed when Silberer got into closer contact with Wilhelm Stekel and C. G. Jung, who both had distanced themselves from the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society by that
The Dream - Introduction into the Psychology of Dreams fascinated by the putative meaning of their dreams and desired to discover their unconscious selves by means of interpreting them. In the following years, Silberer noticed that while the literature on the interpretation of dreams was increasing in amount and complexity, general information on basic elements of dreams was deficient. Therefore, he began to give public lectures on fundamental knowledge about dreams as well as his specific findings in this field in Vienna. After various listeners of one of such lectures had assured him that he had succeeded in providing an understandable introduction into the psychology of dreams, Silberer decided