Psychoanalysis

er: "What makes me dream?"-"You eat too much meat," the mother answers. The next scene

. Children like to dream and Freud's statement that every dream contains

ons the simple pleasures which are

a rather strict diet, owing to some gastric disturbance, was heard to call

she cried bitterly at the landing when compelled to leave the boat. The next

ay present, a little basket full of cherries. He performed that duty rather reluctantly. The following day he awak

of the London Education Committee, on the significance of children's dreams. He based his statemen

ams of presents and eating at all ages from eight to fourteen, were much more frequent with children of the poorer classes that with those from well-

mong boys than among girls, the proportion being

man" who terrified the dreamers. Both sexes suffered equally from the fear of animals, lions,

er of fear dreams was very noticeable among b

girls of 16 and over, who were generally fri

dreams it was more frequently the playgroun

rous fighter, mentioned in dispatches, rewarded with the Victoria Cross, th

es as Red Cross nurses, but no such d

ed in dreaming and telling their

t, the dreams of students from 18 to 22 "were so heavily camouflaged that it would be impossibl

wish-fulfilment dreams of children into the symbolical and often distressing visions of the adult. The development of sexuality

girls' minds. On the other hand, many of the boys above sixteen find forms of sexual satisfaction of which the girls of the same ag

being as uniformly pleasurable as

ost of them are apparently indifferen

interpretation as those of children and are obviousl

e of his friends were camping with him, that one of them had gone to a neighbouring

rinking formed the central point around which most of our dreams were grouped. One of us, who was fond of going to big dinner parties, was exceedingly glad when he could report in the morning that he had had a three course dinner. Another dreamed of tobacco, mountains of it; still another dreamed of a ship ap

ent or absurd. Interpreted according to the technique outlined in Chap

d the inexperienced interpreter to suspect the sinister d

ory and saw Charles wo

o the condition of a working man. The patient's unconscious association to glass blower proved to be consumption. The patient

s absurd and may cause the patient some anxiety. One of Ferenczi's patients, who w

had recently ordered out of her house, saying later that she would not have such a snarling

n which the wish fulfilme

body else. Bombs are falling about us. One of

t and enjoys greatly riding with him in his

woman whom Albert had taken to ride on several occasions and of whom my patient was very jealous. By destr

ther unpleasant without bein

m me and running about the house. The man was captured and brought back by another man who cross-examined him. The other man made excuses for the thief and said he probably intended to

use. The thief in the dream turned out to be her lover and the man who captures him, her husband. Everything is made simple and pleasant by the fact that the husband takes it upon hi

been trained to remember and record their dreams accurately, sometimes bring a series of visions, apparently unrelated