Historical dream account · English · A. A. Brill, 1913 translation
Already at the hospital
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
The Interpretation of Dreams, authorised translation of the third German edition (1913) · Printed pp. 105–106
Dreamer identified by the source: Unnamed young colleague of Freud; “Joe H. . . .” on the dream chart
Read in your language or share a constellation ↗
Whereupon the sleeper dreamt of a room in the hospital, a bed in which he was lying, and a chart pinned over his head reading: "Joe H. . . . cand. med. 22 years old." He said to himself in the dream: "If I am already at the hospital, I don't have to go there," turned over and slept on.
No precise dream date inferred. Page or diary heading is a locator; publication year is not event date.
Source & context
A colleague’s dream retold by Freud. This is a quoted historical pseudonymous/initialled figure, not a modern user; no identity expanded. The narrative’s first two words occur at the foot of page105 and its continuation at the top of106; the intervening unrelated footnote is not part of the dream. Supplied title, no invented first-person voice. In his preface (p. vi), Freud acknowledges that he disguised some personal disclosures through omissions and substitutions. These are historical reports as published in Brill’s 1913 English translation, rather than claims of untouched original dream logs.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), The Interpretation of Dreams, authorised translation of the third German edition (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913), translated with introduction by A. A. Brill (1874–1948), Printed pp. 105–106. Dreamer: Unnamed young colleague of Freud; “Joe H. . . .” on the dream chart. Original-edition witness: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Internet Archive scan funded by Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School. Original published qualifications, initials and uncertainty retained; descriptive title and navigation metadata added by Synastry.
No precise dream date inferred. Page or diary heading is a locator; publication year is not event date.
Public domain in the United States (original 1913 English edition) ↗
The original New York: Macmillan, 1913 English edition is beyond the maximum US publication term. The title page identifies Sigmund Freud and translator A. A. Brill; Countway Library catalogue metadata identifies their life dates as 1856–1939 and 1874–1948, respectively, so ordinary life-plus-70 terms have also elapsed. This uses Brill’s original 1913 translation, not a modern English translation or editorial adaptation. The original volume was digitized for Internet Archive with Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School funding. Public access or absence of a restrictive archive field is not itself a licence grant. No blanket worldwide clearance or new Creative Commons licence is asserted.
Source locator and text provenance
Printed pp. 105–106
The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.
Original-scan-witnessed OCR repairs; line, page and type-spacing normalization; original lexical hyphens retained. Footnote/header furniture outside the continuous main-text account removed where a page intervenes. No new narrative words, endings, identifications or clinical interpretation.
- Account text SHA-256
- ce8c2059537fd04ca75af94ab8423ac2bb427f642f6cd9e95a9a13337b9b3356
- Source file SHA-256
- 81d74537e2b19bdae7ad780593916ea8cbc0c13ec793e2cfe7ed49e227049568
Content notes
- Historical recollection
Connections in the Loom
Titles, theme labels, illustrations and map connections are editorial navigation aids. They are separate from the account’s words and do not establish connections between real people.