On the Nightmare

Carolyn Fay

On the Nightmare, by Ernest Jones

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One of Freud's most devoted disciples, Jones was a dominant figure in the psychoanalytic movement in the English-speaking world. On the Nightmare is both a psychoanalytic and cultural critique of common nightmare themes and superstitions: witchcraft, vampires, devils, and the like.

Jones, Ernest. On the Nightmare. New York: Liveright, 1951.