In nineteenth century Europe even philosophers such as Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1777-1841) began to regard dreams as worthy of serious psychological study, and thus the way was prepared for the revolution in dream theory that began at the end of the century with Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). ... Until the revolution in dream theory brought about by the work of Freud and Jung, few philosophers disagreed with the nineteenth-century German physicist Theodor Fechner's assertion that in dreams "it is as though psychological activity has been transported fro...

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