On Dreams and Memory – Praised by Freud
SULLY, James.
Illusions, a psychological study. [The International Scientific Series, Vol. 34]. London, Kegan Paul, 1881.
8vo, pp. xii, 372, [2 (advertisements for the Series)], [2 (blank)], 32 (publisher’s advertisements); some foxing to endpapers and half-title, otherwise an excellent copy in original red blocked cloth, boards blocked in black, slightly marked in places spine blocked in black and gilt; corners lightly bumped.
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Illusions, a psychological study. [The International Scientific Series, Vol. 34].
First edition of Sully’s study of perception, dreams, and memory, with his discussion of psychology as a ‘positive science’, praised by both Freud and Wundt.
Psychologist James Sully (1842–1923) was a founding member of the British Psychological Society and in 1898 opened a laboratory for experimental psychology at University College London.
Particularly interesting is Sully’s discussion of dreams, including the exaggeration of sensations in dream interpretation, the incoherence of dreams, after-dreams and apparitions, and dreaming and mental illness. Freud retroactively (and begrudgingly), acknowledged in the 1914 edition of The Interpretation of Dreams that he had read Sully’s 1893 ‘The Dream as a Revelation’ at the time of its publication.