See Träume sind Schäume on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1914 [1900], Sigmund Freud, Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams], 4th edition, Leipzig, Wien: Franz Deuticke, page 102; republished as Abraham Brill, transl., 1913:",
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