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
The Road of Dreams when copies remained unbound and unsold well into the 1960s. The contents of this book were reprinted in the 1973 collection "Poems" as "Volume 1", although there are several differences between the two editions (See "Poems" for details). The Road of Dreams The Road of Dreams is a book of poetry by crime writer Agatha Christie. It was published at her own expense by "Geoffrey Bles" in January 1925 priced at five shillings (5/-). Only one edition of the 112-page volume was ever published and this was undated. Christie wrote poetry for most of her life; her first traceable published