Part 2 (1/2)

The sending away of the little one, of the genital, in the first dream therefore also refers to the threatened castration Finally she bla been born a boy

That ”being run over” symbolizes sexual intercourse would not be evident from this dream if ere not sure of it froenital by structures, stairways, and shafts (Drea a ith his father in a place which is surely the Prater, for the Rotunda may be seen in front of which there is a small front structure to which is attached a captive balloon; the balloon, however, seems quite collapsed His father asks him what this is all for; he is surprised at it, but he explains it to his father They coe sheet of tin His father wants to pull off a big piece of this, but first looks around to see if any one is watching He tells his father that all he needs to do is to speak to the watchman, and then he can take without any further difficulty as much as he wants to From this court a stairway leads down into a shaft, the walls of which are softly upholstered so like a leather pocketbook At the end of this shaft there is a longer platforins”

analysis This dreas to a type of patient which is not favorable from a therapeutic point of view They follow in the analysis without offering any resistances whatever up to a certain point, but from that point on they remain almost inaccessible This dream he alenital, the captive balloon in front is my penis, about the weakness of which I have worried” We reater detail; the Rotunda is the buttock which is regularly associated by the child with the genital, the smaller front structure is the scrotum In the dream his father asks him what this is all for--that is, he asks hienitals It is quite evident that this state of affairs should be turned around, and that he should be the questioner As such a questioning on the side of the father has never taken place in reality, we ht as a wish, or take it conditionally, as follows: ”If I had only asked htenht we shall soon find in another place

The court in which the tin sheet is spread out is not to be conceived syinates from his father's place of business For discretionary reasons I have inserted the tin for anotheranything in the verbal expression of the dream The dreamer had entered his father's business, and had taken a terrible dislike to the questionable practices upon which profit mainly depends Hence the continuation of the above dreaht (”if I had only asked him”) would be: ”He would have deceivedoff, which serves to represent coives a second explanation--namely, onanisrees very ith the fact that the secrecy of onanism is expressed by its opposite (”Why one can do it quite openly”) It, rees entirely with our expectations that the onanistic activity is again put off on the father, just as was the questioning in the first scene of the dreaina by referring to the soft upholstering of the walls That the act of coition in the vagina is described as a going down instead of in the usual way as a going up, I have also found true in other instances[2]

The details that at the end of the first shaft there is a longer platforraphically He had for soiven it up because of inhibitions and now hopes to be able to take it up again with the aid of the treatment The dream, however, becomes indistinct toward the end, and to the experienced interpreter it becomes evident that in the second scene of the dreaun to assert itself; in this his father's business and his dishonest practices signify the first vagina represented as a shaft so that one ht think of a reference to the enital symbolized by persons and the female by a landscape

(Dream of a woman of the lower class, whose husband is a policeman, reported by B Dattner)Then some one broke into the house and anxiously called for a policeman But he ith two trareat many stairs;[4] behind the church there was a mountain,[5] on top of which a dense forest[6] The policeet, and a cloak[7] The two vagrants, ent along with the policeman quite peaceably, had tied to their loins sack-like aprons[8] A road led frorown on each side with grass and brushwood, which becaht of the mountain, where it spread out into quite a forest

5 A stairway dream

(Reported and interpreted by Otto Rank) For the following transparent pollution dreaue who furnished us with the dental-irritation drea down the stairway in the stair-house after a little girl, who to me At the bottorown-up worasp it, but do not knohether I have hit it, for I suddenly find myself in the middle of the stairhere I practice coitus with the child (in the air as it were) It is really no coitus, I only rubthis I see it very distinctly, as distinctly as I see her head which is lying sideways During the sexual act I see hanging to the left and above me (also as if in the air) two sreen On the smaller one nature should be; it see in front of the pictures to the effect that cheaper pictures could also be obtained I then seein bed, just as I had seen myself at the foot of the stairs, and I a of dampness which came from the pollution”

Interpretation The drea of the day of the drea, he examined some pictures which were exhibited, which represented motives similar to the dream pictures He stepped nearer to a small picture which particularly took his fancy in order to see the name of the artist, which, however, was quite unknown to hi, in coirl who boasted that her illegitimate child ”was made on the stairs” The dreamer inquired about the details of this unusual occurrence, and learned that the servant-girl ith her lover to the home of her parents, where there was no opportunity for sexual relations, and that the excited man performed the act on the stairs In witty allusion to the mischievous expression used about wine-adulterers, the drearew on the cellar steps”

These experiences of the day, which are quite prominent in the dream content, were readily reproduced by the dreament of infantile recollection which was also utilized by the dreareatest part of his childhood, and in which he had first become acquainted with sexual probles, to slide down the banister astride which caused him to become sexually excited In the dream he also co to his own distinct assertions, he hardly touched the individual stairs, but rather ”flew” or ”slid down,” as we used to say Upon reference to this infantile experience, the beginning of the dream seems to represent the factor of sexual excitement In the same house and in the adjacent residence the drea children, in which he satisfied himself just as he did in the dreaation of sexual sy stairs alularly symbolizes coitus, the dream becomes clear Its motive power as well as its effect, as is shown by the pollution, is of a purely libidinous nature sexual excite state (in the drea down the stairs) and the sadistic thread in this is, on the basis of the pugnacious playing, indicated in the pursuing and overco of the child The libidinous excitees to sexual action (represented in the drea of the child and the conveyance of it to the middle of the stairway) Up to this point the dream would be one of pure, sexual symbolism, and obscure for the unpracticed drearatification, which would have insured undisturbed sleep, was not sufficient for the powerful libidinous exciteasm, and thus the whole stairway symbolism is unmasked as a substitute for coitus Freud lays stress on the rhythmical character of both actions as one of the reasons for the sexual utilization of the stairway symbolism, and this drea to the express assertion of the dreamer, the rhythm of a sexual act was the most pronounced feature in the whole drea the two pictures, which, aside fronificance, also have the value of ”Weibsbilder” (literally _woman-pictures_, but idiomatically _women_) This is at once shown by the fact that the drea and a little picture, just as the dreairl That cheap pictures could also be obtained points to the prostitution complex, just as the dreaht that it was intended for his birthday, point to the parent complex (to be born on the stairway--to be conceived in coitus)

The indistinct final scene, in which the drea in bed and feeling wet, seeo back into childhood even beyond the infantile onanism, and manifestly has its prototype in si

6 A modified stair-dream

To one of my very nervous patients, as an abstainer, whose fancy was fixed on hisstairs accompanied by his mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would be less harmful to him than enforced abstinence This influence provoked the following drea his piano-playing, and for not practicing the Etudes of Moscheles and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum” In relation to this he remarked that the Gradus is only a stairway, and that the piano itself is only a stairway as it has a scale

It is correct to say that there is no series of associations which cannot be adapted to the representation of sexual facts I conclude with the dreaive up his habit ofit with intercourse omen

_Preliiven a student instruction concerning Grignard's reaction, in which nesium is to be dissolved in absolutely pure ether under the catalytic influence of iodine Two days before, there had been an explosion in the course of the saator had burned his hand

Dreanesium-bromid; he sees the apparatus with particular clearness, but he has substituted hi attitude He keeps repeating to hi,soft” Then he reaches down and feels for his feet, and s out of the crucible, and then again he says to himself, ”That cannot be Yes, it must be so, it has been done correctly” Then he partially awakens, and repeats the dream to himself, because he wants to tell it to me He is distinctly afraid of the analysis of the drea state, and repeats continually, ”Phenyl, phenyl”_ II _He is ining with his whole family; at half-past eleven He is to be at the Schottenthor for a rendezvous with a certain lady, but he does not wake up until half-past eleven He says to hiet there it will be half-past twelve” The next instant he sees the whole fairl with the soup-tureen with particular clearness Then he says to hiet away”_ analysis: He feels sure that even the first dream contains a reference to the lady whom he is to ht before the expected ave the instruction is a particularly unpleasant fellow; he had said to the chenesiuh he did not care anything about it: ”It certainly isn't right” He himself must be this student; he is as indifferent towards his analysis as the student is towards his synthesis; the He in the dream, however, who accomplishes the operation, is myself How unpleasant he must seem to me with his indifference towards the success achieved!

Moreover, he is the material hich the analysis (synthesis) is made For it is a question of the success of the treats in the drea Helesson whom he wished to conquer; he pressed her to him so closely that she once cried out After he had stopped pressing against her legs, he felt her firhs as far as just above his knees, at the place mentioned in the dreanesiu He is feminine towards me, as he is masculine towards the woman If it ith the wo aware of hiion of his knees refers to ue of the previous day The rendezvous had actually been set for half-past eleven His wish to oversleep and to remain with his usual sexual objects (that is, with masturbation) corresponds with his resistance

[1] It is only of late that I have learned to value the significance of fancies and unconscious thoughts about life in the womb They contain the explanation of the curious fear felt by soburied alive, as well as the profoundest unconscious reason for the belief in a life after death which represents nothing but a projection into the future of this mysterious life before birth _The act of birth, moreover, is the first experience with fear, and is thus the source and model of the emotion of fear_ [2] Cf _Zentralblatt fur psychoanalyse_, I

[3] Or chapel--vagina

[4] Symbol of coitus

[5] Mons veneris

[6] Crines pubis

[7] De to the explanation of a man versed in the subject, of a phallic nature

[8] The two halves of the scrotum

[9] See _Zentralblatt fur Psychoanalyse_, vol i, p 2

VI

THE WISH IN DREAMS

That the drea but a wish-fulfille to us all--and that not alone because of the contradictions offered by the anxiety drea from the first analytical explanations that the dream conceals sense and psychic validity, we could hardly expect so si to the correct but concise definition of Aristotle, the drea in sleep (in so far as one sleeps) Considering that during the day our thoughts produce such a diversity of psychic acts--judgments, conclusions, contradictions, expectations, intentions, &c--why should our sleeping thoughts be forced to confine themselves to the production of wishes? Are there not, on the contrary, many drea_, a solicitude, and is not the very transparent father's dreaht falling into his eyes while asleep the father draws the solicitous conclusion that a candle has been upset and may have set fire to the corpse; he transfor it with a senseful situation enacted in the present tense What part is played in this dream by the wish-fulfillment, and which are we to suspect--the predo state or of the thought incited by the new sensory impression?

All these considerations are just, and force us to enter more deeply into the part played by the wish-fulfill thoughts continued in sleep

It is in fact the wish-fulfillroups We have found some dreams that were plainly wish-fulfillnized, and was frequently concealed by every available nized the influence of the dreauised wish drea open-hearted wish dreams seemed (I purposely emphasize this word) to occur also in adults