The Interpretation of Dreams over others (including Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Janet, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing) in silence, and with systematically avoiding "citing the passages in the works of his predecessors which came closest to his own theories." Neuropsychoanalyst Mark Blechner maintains that even if one does not agree with Freud's theories that all dreams are wish-fulfillments and that the strangeness of dreams is due to mental disguise, "The Interpretation of Dreams" remains an extraordinary scientific record of dream texts and an analysis of the mental operations that dreams demonstrate. The first translation from German into English was completed by A. A. Brill, a Freudian
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