Psychoanalysis

of pleasant or indifferent dreams, meets with a most sceptical reception when it is applied

ued by a bull, trampled down by a horse. A man may dream that he is stabbed in the back or that he is sinking slowly into water. In the first case we have a symbolic expression of the woman's desire for sexual intercourse

he subject's inability or unwillingness to recognize

ich is distressing, full of danger, but which leads to a tri

rds a fine dream of his in which his egotis

might get out of bounds. In fact the tiger tears himself loose from the horse and leaps toward the door. I slam it shut and lock it up. After a while, I re-enter the hall.

ent aspects. I am the wolf or tiger and I lock the door in order that the wild cravings may not get loose. How great I am in this dream! Krafft-Ebing, the famous expert in sexual pathology, runs about helpless, while I hold the beasts in my power. The fear-stricken fe

ointment with me, the anxiety is purely hypocritical, for each new obstacle pl

ame direction, bare-headed and riding on a bicycle. He came near running i

1.30 in the morning) but felt that I could not be there on time. My watch had stopped and the clocks I saw in stores

s. I turned to the left, however, and climbed stairs leading through a white house, which I understood to be a school. There was a woman there with a few children. I then issued into a wide avenue running east and west which looked like

ing an appointment: Mistake about the hour, clocks stopped, going to the wrong direction (north i

er and who had exhausted all the possible excuses for refusing such an invitatio

y bed which looked like a caterpillar. I was disgusted and frightened. I went into the bathroom and there too found insects of the

tention of the landlady and as I entered my friend's roo

eatures in one's apartment and she said: 'The rooms were

st and yet, a solution offered for the young woman's problem, a

ffort at finding a solution

e had the baby, you can select a husband for yourself.' I followed her and lay on a bed waiting for pains. Feeling nothing I grew impatient and went downstairs. Suddenly I be

(a nurse girl of her childhood days) is not only taking the matter as natural but shows her the advantages of her condition. On the other hand, the girl is frigid in love and used to associate pregnancy with orgasm. The pregnancy means here the fulfilment of her wish for an orgasm. Also it reveals her secret desire that her lover might

re, without any symbolism or distortion of

icted by others or self-torture, and to which fear

r into our blood stream fuel which gives us for a few minutes or a few hours a feeling of energy and power we m

f the most nightmarish variety which fill them with terror. We have all me

slash themselves or pull their hair or beards, corresponds closely from the endocrine point of view to the craving for terrible fairy tales or the frequency of c