The Interpretation of Dreams was impressed by the work when he read it in 1905. Rank was moved to write a critical reanalysis of one of Freud's own dreams, and perhaps partly for this reason came to Freud's attention. It was with Rank's help that Freud published the work's second edition in 1909. The classicist Norman O. Brown, writing in "Life Against Death" (1959), described "The Interpretation of Dreams" as one of the great applications and extensions of the Socratic maxim "know thyself." The philosopher Paul Ricœur, writing in "Freud and Philosophy" (1965), described Freud's work as his "first great book", and argued that
Together in Electric Dreams in 1981, which helped the single become number one in the United Kingdom and United States. For the film "Electric Dreams", Barron wanted to emulate the huge success of the film "Flashdance" a year earlier. "Flashdance" had used the electronic music of Giorgio Moroder, so Barron enlisted Moroder as director of music, who wrote most of the score. Barron wanted the end credits to roll to "an emotional" song in the same way as "Flashdance" had done. Moroder wrote "Together in Electric Dreams" as a male solo vocal, and Barron suggested his former associate Philip Oakey for the part. After