The Dreams of Mabel Dodge: Diary of an Analysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe

In 1916, salon host Mabel Dodge entered psychoanalysis with Smith Ely Jelliffe in New York, recording 142 dreams during her six-month treatment. Her dreams, as well as Jelliffe’s handwritten notes from her analytic sessions, provide an unusual and virtually unprecedented access to one woman’s dream life and to the private process of psychoanalysis and its exploration of the unconscious.

Through Dodge’s dreams—considered together with Jelliffe’s notes, annotations drawn from her memoirs and u...