Ken Frieden is Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Languages and Literatures and in the Comparative Literature Program at Emory University. He has authored Genius and Monologue, which traces the evolution of inspiration and individuality since ancient times.

Foreword

Preface
Introduction
1. Freud: Interpreter and Seducer
Freud's Path to Dreams
Against the Past
Interpretation by Correspondence and Displacement
"Free" Association
Revisions of Secondary Revision
Freud's Monopoly and the Dream Facade
Occupation and Resistance
2. Joseph and Daniel: Disguises and Interpretive Power
"Will You Rule Over Us?"
"Do Not Interpretations Belong to God? Tell Me"
"As He Interpreted to Us, So It Was"
"This Is Your Dream"
"Worship the Image of Gold"
"Mene Mene Teqel Upharsin"
"Your God ... Will Deliver You"
3. Bar Hedia and R. Ishmael: Battles of Interpretation
"A Dream That Is Not Interpreted ..."
"All Dreams Follow the Mouth"
"Your Father Has Left You Money in Cappadocia"
"Because of Your Mouth ..."
4. Freud: Demystification and Denial
Dreams of Prophecy and Telepathy
The Prophetic Interpreter
Languages of Dreams
Dreams of Wordplay
An Absurd Decree
The Grand Verneinung
Conclusion
References
Indices