Arthur Z. woke before the alarm, pursued by a series of bothering dreams. He was a teen in English class with a kid punching him in the ribs. Arthur gasped for air. The rupture of sleep robbed him of any sense of having rested. Yet knowledge lay within the dream-some key to his general predicament. What was coming next... With its movement from place to place, moment to moment, image to compelling image partaking of the quicksilver logic of the unconscious, Matthew Kirshman's Interpretation of Dreams confronts us at once with the emotional necessity and the intellectual impossibility of interpretation...