On this day in ...... 1899 (110 years ago today), a publishing house based in Leipzig, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, released 600 copies of Die Traumdeutung (though publishers gave the book a publication year of 1900). The copies took 8 years to sell; for his efforts, the author received the equivalent of $209. The book -- known in English as The Interpretation of Dreams -- would become a landmark in the sciences of the mind. (image credit) Its author? Dr. Sigmund Freud, "the father of psychoanalysis" and also the progenitor of that time-honored question,
'What does a woman want?''Grrls know.
(Prior November 4 posts are here and here.)
