First delivered and published between 1915 and 1917 these lectures see a mature Freud expound on his theories and practices which at the time were revolutionary. While generally outdated in the modern setting the methods detailed were valuable as a benchmark upon which future psychologists and psychiatrists built in subsequent years.

Designed to introduce the enthusiastic layman to the psychoanalytic techniques Freud spent decades developing and refining A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis ranges across several key tenets of Freudian thought. Several lectures concern the means by which dreams may be interpreted as an insight into the state of the patient's psyche with symbols and distant memories particularly cited.