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The fact that the poet of "Fräulein Else", "Dreumnovelle" and other masterpieces, in which the characters dream in an artistic and meaningful way, also led an active dream life himself, becomes immediately apparent when reading his great diary: Between 1921 and 1931, Schnitzler excerpted and stylistically revised his dream notations and added three substantial dream texts that are not in the diary. The result is a fascinating chronicle of his inner life, a work that challenges us to confront Freud's "interpretation of dreams. Although the dream texts naturally reflect Schnitzler's very own passions and passions, they also contain strange scenarios in which famous contemporaries appear: in addition to Freud, they include Herzl, Klimt, Hofmannsthal, Mahler and.