This practicum turned out to be an exercise in humility for me- I had quite a few other concepts for how to use the text analysis tools that I came across both before and after creating the word cloud (via Wordle) below.  My intention in creating this word cloud, using the text and footnotes of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, was to begin to visualize just how much of his work, starting with the most frequently referenced (but perhaps not frequently read) text, is occupied with the family dynamics that receives so much attention.

While Wordle automatically filters most irrelevant words (a/an/the), it did not seem to allow me the chance to eliminate any words of my choosing from the final product.  As a result, "dream" and "dreams" take up a somewhat unhelpful amount of space in this word cloud, making it more difficult to quickly judge just how much weight other words like "sexual" and "father," for example, carry in comparison to each other.  It's interesting to note that other key terms, such as "wish-fulfillment," are very small in scale here and yet receive an enormous amount of attention, as this text marks the introduction of many such terms and concepts.

Other ideas I had for text analyses included making a word tree of The Waste Land (to see what the program might make of trying to map a poem that seems to elude mapping), and using various word mapping techniques to track the frequency of certain key terms in Freud's other works over time (to visualize how his views shifted over time); but problems negotiating required plug-ins, foreign languages, and other factors I'm not entirely sure of myself limited me to this humble word cloud for now.