The Interpretation of Dreams | Style
Narrative Voice
Freud made a bold move in choosing to write The Interpretation of Dreams, a ‘‘scientific’’ treatise, in the first-person narrative voice—meaning that he inserts himself into the text as an individual, using the pronoun ‘‘I.’’ Freud’s theoretical insights, which he puts forth in The Interpretation of Dreams, are a direct result of several years of intensive self-analysis; thus, he analyses his own dreams as examples to prove his theory of dream interpretation. He explains that to demonstrate his theory, he found that his own...
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