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Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series No. 22

THE DREAM PROBLEM

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DR. A. E. MAEDER

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction i

Example of a Dream Analysis 6

The Analysis 1 1

Signification of the Manifest Dream Content i6

The Dream in its Psychic Environment 23

Types of Dreams 29

Tendencies of Vienna and Zurich Schools in Psycho-
analysis » 36

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THE DREAM PROBLEM

INTRODUCTION

The reason for the choice of this theme as the principal sub-
ject of discussion at to-day's meeting is a publication of mine on
the same subject, which has called forth opposition, especially in
the circle of our Vienna colleagues. As I had the distinct im-
pression that I was misunderstood, I gladly seized the opportunity
to speak on the question to-day. There were in my opinion two
principal reasons for the misunderstanding. The first reason is,
presumably, that I did not succeed in expressing myself clearly
in what I had to say on the subject. The work which appeared
a year ago in the "Jahrbuch" had been written two and a half
years ago, at a time when the problem was not very familiar to
me. The second important reason for my being misunderstood
lies in the fact that the point of view therein given discovers a
new field of thought in psychoanalysis, with which we must be-
come acquainted. This new field is not an individual discovery,
for it is also to be found in the works of the last few years, espe-
cially in those by Jung, Riklin, Silberer and, in some respects,
in those by Adler and others. I consider it extremely important
for us all that we should have opportunity to debate together, and
publicly, these questions that so" greatly occupy us; the more so
as I have the conviction that no real or necessary differences
exist between us, for what we of the Ziirich school have accom-
plished is a natural outcome of what Freud gave us. The new
field of which I spoke just now is analogous to the new view
which opens before the wanderer when he reaches a turning of
his road. Before I touch my theme, let me remark that the ex-

1 A paper read at the Congress of the Psychoanal3i;ical Society at
Munich, September, 1913. Jahrbuch fiir Psychoanalyse und psycho-
analytische Forschungen, 1914.

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planations I give to-day are not an official presentation of the
Zurich point of view, but only expressions of personal conviction
and point of view. Still, they are suited, I hope, to show existing
differences in opinion.

In this paper, here offered for discussion, I have assumed
two chief functions of the dream: the cathartic and the preparing
function. In my talk to-day, I shall confine myself to the second
function, as the most important and the most disputed. My
erstwhile formula must be changed, since I have recognized that
the functions mentioned hold good, not only for the dream, but
for almost all products of unconscious activity (such as day phan-
tasies, works of art, play, visions, etc.). They are functions of
the unconscious itself, which in these phenomena arrive at expres-
sion. It will be the task of later workers to furnish the reason
for the connection between these phenomena. Furthermore, you
will recall that Freud has seen ahead here as in all other fields, in
that he has put on record the axiom that neurotic symptoms must
be regarded as " unsuccessful attempts at cure." Among these dif-
ferent elaborations of the unconscious functions, the dream
assumes a peculiar place, in that it is at work every night. It is a
modest servant who performs his task in silence. It seeks for a
satisfying formula for the unconscious condition, and strives for
its expression. This dream work can exercise a really liberating
action which betrays a close relationship to work of art. Various
authors have already drawn attention to this. Rank among others.
But in the formulae to date, the chief stress has been laid upon
the cathartic action, on the unloading of the emotion, whilst, in
my opinion, the overcoming of the conflict, the real freeing by
means of sublimation, is the chief function of the work of art,
Mensendieck, to whom we owe valuable, but unfortunately not
yet published researches in this field, will illuminate this problem
for you in detail in his lecture on Wagner — "The Prospective
Tendency of the Unconscious in Wagner's first Drama and in
Parsifal."^

2 This lecture was given at the same Congress in Munich-

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The artist seeks in his work the solution of his actual conflict
or, rather, he realizes in it the solution of his personal life prob-
lem. There is at stake a long attempt, which stretches over all
his work, and in which only the fewest succeed even approxi-
mately. On a more modest scale, and in quite different propor-
tions the dream seeks to do the same for every man. A work of
art carries out a social function in that it serves as a model, by
virtue of its high spiritual elaboration, whilst the dream has to
content itself with the role of a purely individual means of expres-
sion, which, nevertheless, is yet a very important role. The use
made of dreams in the ancient religions is for us a premonition
of the connections in which it is now really recognized.

The following sentence, taken from Horneffer's work "The
Priest," will clearly illustrate this point : " The sick Greeks, who
made pilgrimages to the temple of yEsculapius, in order to
undergo the temple sleep, did not want to know what had caused
their sickness, but hoped to come in contact with the holy ^Escu-
lapias in the dream and to receive from him directions for the
treatment to be followed in order to effect a cure."

The liberating function of the dream is here expressed as a
hint from God in the so-called mythical phase of realization ; the
dream itself is considered by me as a part of the curative process.
You will permit me to remind you of the keen saying of Hebbel
on this same point. It is: "This I know; such dreams one
should not despise. I fancy it to be this way: when man lies
asleep, relaxed, no longer held together by self-consciousness, a
feeling of the future crowds out all thoughts and pictures of the
present, and those things which are to come glide like shadows
through the soul, preparing, warning, comforting. This is why
so seldom, or not at all, anything really surprises us, and why we
have long and confidently hoped for the good, and trembled
involuntarily before every evil."

From our special point of view there exist two categories oi
artists : those who reflect a sort of mirrored image and expression

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of the spirit of their time, and another more valuable class who
are the fighting pioneers and liberators of mankind; those who
truly carry the prospective function of mankind. Works of art
accordingly aflfect mankind differently, relieving or liberating as
has been said before, according to the prevalence of prospective
or retrospective fixation. About the same may be said of dreams
and their effect upon the individual; but the differences concern
not only the separate persons, but also phases of the personal
development of the individual. I shall demonstrate this asser-
tion by examples later on. In this regard a man's series of
dreams prove very valuable, as they represent a gradual devel-
opment of the current ethical conflict. We possess such a series
of dreams given by Rosegger, which will be considered later on,
and which shows clearly the value of a consideration of the
dream problem in a larger connection. To Mensendieck we owe
parallel researches into a series of works of art by the same poet
(Hebbel, Wagner, etc.) which show a very similar result. These
writings can actually be regarded as disindividualized and ob-
jectified milestones in the course of their author's development.
From the proposal of true definitions (to be explained later)
it is at once apparent according to my conception, that the axiom
of the dream as a wish fulfilment is, too indefinite and espe-
cially too one-sided, for it actually fails to embrace the important
teleological side of the unconscious function. I regard the dream
as a means of expression of the unconscious, as a true language.
This dream speech is a " translation " of the worked up material
of the unconscious, for the benefit of the conscious. By virtue
of the special "permeability of the psychic diaphragm" in the
sleeping state, this messenger, or better, this interpreter pene-
trates from the unconscious sphere into the conscious. This
function of expression must be defined in greater detail. Dreams
give autosymbolic representations of the actual condition of the
libido, which are transmitted to the consciousness. The latter,
as Freud has shown, acts merely as the " percepting " organ. The

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unconscious strives in the dream for adequate expression, I said;
thereby a relation between the two autonomous psychic appara-
tuses is established. The unconscious utilizes many other means
of expression for the same purpose : play, day phantasies, works
of art, visions, neurotic symptoms, failures. Failure of accom-
plishment reveals rather that directly represents the unconscious,
like the dream, which owing to its complicated structure possesses
a special meaning. The relation of the dream to the work of art
has already been emphasized and this idea, by the way, has already
been formulated repeatedly, by Rank among others. I think the
immediate future will shed more light on just this point.

We owe valuable data on this problem to those artists who
have expressed themselves on the technique of their creations.
C. Spitteler's contributions give us a very valuable affirmation of
the close relation between the configuration of dreams and the
production of works of art. Dream analyses have given me
repeatedly the impression that genuine artistic talents lie latent
in all men, of which only little reaches manifestation. Freud has
laid down the axiom that the dream is the royal road which leads
into the unconscious. The previously mentioned definition of
the dream as an autosymbolic representation of the actual con-
dition of the libido fits very well with this. The mechanism
known under the formula " mindfulness of the presentable " and
which Bleuler has hesitated to accept, is therefore entitled to very
special attention. The prevalence of visual material in the dream-
structure is connected with the representability of the dream,
therefore also with the expression-function of the dream in the
psychic menage.

After these introductory remarks, I shall now go on to my
actual task, to demonstrate by means of a detailed dream analysis
the ideas and formulas presented. This will give me opportunity
to raise several other points, for instance, the significance of the
manifest dream content for the interpretation of the dream,
the relation of the dream to its psychic environment, also the

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polyvalence of symbols and the meaning of the prospective direc-
tion in the analysis. Also by means of a dream analysis I shall
try to give a parallel between the interpretation of Freud
and his immediate pupils, as distinct from our own school, which
will give occasion for a defining of our mutual positions.
I begin with a dream analysis :

Example of a Dream Analysis
Report Necessary to the Analysis. — The dreamer is a youth
of i8; he comes of a good family, of old stock which possesses,
however, numerous neurotic features. He grew up between a
father who was severe and violent in his demands, but, who taken
altogether was quite lovable, and a mother who is gentle, yielding,
sensitive, and cultured. As a boy he learned to avoid his father
very skilfully, and to escape from the responsibilities of life; in
the latter process he abused a natural gift for winning the affec-
tion of others. So he succeeded in being his own master, by
allowing his own desires and moods and interests to dominate his
life. Gradually tremendous gaps were noticed in his develop-
ment. There followed a chasing from one school to another.
After some years the youth emerged from these circumstances,
quite unimproved and extraordinarily ignorant. Psychoanalytic
treatment was then begun, side by side with suitable teaching and
education. Gradually the youth began to tackle this accumulated
load of studies ; after two years he was able to do a good piece
of work in proper time. The dream analyzed later belongs to a
time during the analysis when the youth had overcome the worst
difficulties and the severest conflicts. In the patient's own writ-
ten account the dream runs as follows :

" / was with M. [sister of the dreamer] in the hall of a swim-
ming bath. Only one gentleman and one lady were swimming
there. I wanted to swim also with M. But as the hall was in a
wrecked condition, I believed that no one was officially permitted
to swim there. We succeeded, after some difficulty, in getting
into the water which was at first very cold, I believe, but after-

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wards it seemed warm to me, anyway, I was not at all cold later.
With a bicycle, we then rode further, to the lake {in Ziirich],
where we met O. and a man on horseback in a green uniform.
He rode on a horse that had a beautiful blue coat. Before he
came to the bridge he dismounted and showed the left foreleg of
the blue horse to a boy, who suddenly appeared. Afterwards
some gentleman spoke to us about Dr. D. and spoke of a check
number which he had taken by mistake. I then offered to take it
with me [to the doctor who lived in a higher part of the town]
but he said he had already arranged something with his sister."
I woke up many times in between and was rather cross at not
yet having dreamed anything. It was only after I was really
awake that I noticed that I had been dreaming. I had paper and
pencil under my pillow.

Associations. — ^According to the dreamer, the scene with the
blue horse is the center of interest in the dream, the emotional
interest is very strong here. (It is necessary to remark that the
horse has much significance for the dreamer himself and for his
whole environment.) I shall first take the boy's associations with
the blue horse, and my own remarks are placed between brackets.

The blue horse is the color of the ice bird. There are no
such horses. Monkeys have that color at the buttocks [he laughs]
or in their faces. It was not beautiful ! [strong affect] Miss von
X. loves blue above all other colors [see below who is Miss von
X.] Blue blood. [The dreamer as well as Miss von X. is of
noble lineage.] Last evening we had a discussion on co-educa-
tion ; it was related how girls act as magnets for the boys in an
institute where the sexes are mixed; I wished to dream that
night [in order to get material for the psychoanalysis]. Just now
I suddenly think of " Harringa " or " Hanaschia," I don't know
why. Oh yes, "Harringa" is bound in blue [He refers to the
celebrated novel by Poppert which he had read with great in-
terest] but that is a different blue. The other name was not

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Harraschid, but Harun-al-Raschid, now I know, about A.D. 800,
a splendid name isn't it? [the dreamer relates the contents of
the novel as follows, and in answer to a question which I put to
him at the end of the association work: The hero is a young
student who, whilst drunk, goes to a brothel where he contracts
a venereal disease and after many difficulties commits suicide by
drowning. Harun-al-Raschid is the favorite hero of the
dreamer's mother. He was an important Kaliph, who hved
about A.D. 800, contemporary with Charlemagne. The youth
shares his mother's admiration — splendid name!] Now I think
of Y [a comrade] , who refers everything to the sexual, he is sup-
posed to have a sexual disease. I was so pleased with the dream.
[He seldom dreams.] Yesterday I masturbated and did not want
to tell of it."

I take the second chain of associations from the officer in the
green uniform — " Mr. von X. [father of Miss von X.] in his
uniform, he is in excellent circumstances, like a king in his king-
dom, he rules supreme and drives splendidly. He was my model
for a long time. I would also like to belong to a [military] regi-
ment of hunters — then one has a green uniform. Now I think
of the green meadow where I took an air bath ; it was during a
walk with Miss v. X. ; she had wished to see me so. We had been
permitted to go on a trip alone for one day and a half. We
managed all sorts of things. We slept together in the hotel ; we
had a bad conscience; we feared we had betrayed ourselves. I
was to give a wrong name, L. von X., so that we might not be
taken for lovers [the lady was 12 years older than he ; as a matter
of fact there was a liaison between them for some time]. The
conditions at the hotel were unfavorable."

The third series of associations I take from the incident
where the rider points to the left fore leg of the horse. It is
worthy of remark that the youth makes a mistake here and says
the right leg. He becomes thoughtful and says, finally, " No, it
is the left." We shall learn later on the reason for this mistake.

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"The officer lifts the horse's leg and examines it. One of our
own horses is lame just now in the left fore leg. I would much
like to be at home just now. I am actually homesick, I have a
longing for the North, but I have to stay here and work. I don't
like the teacher S., one makes slow progress with him. I have
lately been lazy, have lost much time, am discontented. I lack
strenuousness just now. A while ago, when I spoke of the night
in the hotel, I kept back something, but I must tell it. I was
particularly excited that night. Miss von X, had wished me to
drink white wine, which I never do as a rule, but I did it in the
end. I wasn't tipsy, but I was very much excited [which caused
him much difficulty at that time]. I know from this how dan-
gerous it is to drink, since then I have decided to give up drink.
[Please recall the contents of the novel by Poppert — in the first
series of associations]. I still remember our conversations [with
me] on the alcohol problem."

The following series is derived from the boy who appeared
in the dream : " The boy is Karl, our stable boy. He likes to
drink, he is a sullen fellow; he has several times made for me
with the long whip when he was drunk. Now here is a child-
hood memory which I think I have never told. It was when I
was a little fellow in my bath. I was sexually excited; mother
was there. I told her the organ was so queer and hard, I wanted
her to look at it. I think of the boy again ; once he threatened
me with his sword, because I had tattled about his behavior. He
hit me with the flat of his sword, I was very mad, defended my-
self and threw a big flat iron on his feet; there was also a very
ugly laundress at our place. [After a pause] A few days ago,
during lessons, I suddenly felt a severe pain in the left ear. At
once I had the idea, the teacher is going to give me a box on the
ear. [But — nothing was the matter, the lesson was quite peace-
ful, this particular master had never punished him.] I thought
I must defend myself." [The youth here motioned with his
hand to one side, till he remembered that we were dealing with

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an entirely intra-psychic matter. It was with him a typical ex-
pression of his expectation of being badly treated by his father ;
an expectation that is especially active at times when he has not
done his duty. See the third series of associations.]

Now we start a series of associations with Otto, with whom
the dreamer has a conversation.

"O. related the other day having been with three students,
that they had been drinking and had kept on talking from 9 P. M.
to 3 A. M. about women. One of them had spoken on the sub-
ject in four different languages. I was unpleasantly surprised,
as I had thought O. to be very abstemious. He told what diffi-
culty Dr. D. had with his dietetics and of a protest made, quite
unjustifiably, by the students against a professor. I like best the
German spoken by the Hannoverians. I don't like the Swiss
dialect. The new bathing master told me at once that I must be
from the North, he noticed it in my speech. That pleased me."
[The conflict between north and south has an individual psycho-
logical meaning for our young man. North is for him that which
is the correct, controlled element in himself, which he values,
while south is for him the meaner element of letting himself go.]

From the conversation about Dr. D. we get the following as-
sociations :

"The opposition Dr. D. has met with in the town, the fight
against it. I again think of the students and their protest. It is
quite remarkable that my leg has quite healed, doctor. I was
quite surprised, it had been so bad. My sister, D., goes on the
15th to a woman gynecologist. I have lately had a peculiar feel-
ing, something that cuts, as if I had something in the lung, in an
important place, as if something had been cut off in my chest, as
if an axe were cutting inside me all by itself. How can I change
it? What shall I do? Now it is done differently, but how?
How shall I explain the wound?" [ the youth's wound is on the
right leg, which explains the previous slip of the tongue ; he iden-
tifies himself with the horse. He has a curious wound on the

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back of the foot, which always appears when he is in conflict,
and which only heals at the times when he is psychically well.
The magic lies in this, that during times when he is psychically
ill, he keeps this foot, whilst at work, under the rung of the chair
on which he is seated ; this sets up a persistent mechanical irrita-
tion which will not allow the wound to heal. He now under-
stands this and avoids sitting this way. But as he has not yet
found the right outlet for his libido, he must continue to torture
himself — symptom of the gathering libido — and for this reason
we find the new substitute sensation of the cutting himself].

The conversation now takes up the check number.

" It is the check number one receives in the waiting room of
Dr. D. The other day a gentleman is supposed to have taken
the number away with him by mistake. People are provided
with numbers. I wonder how it is at G. ? [A school to which
the dreamer is to go after he is cured.] I am better, but if I have
a relapse, shall I be able to get through it alone ? Something still
prevents me from overcoming the thing. Miss K. has not got as
far as I thought; she is still too hesitating. Miss S. is in bad
shape these days." [Two of my patients.]

Now we shall associate the phrase " I offer to take the number
back to Dr. D."

"Out of poHteness [he is exceedingly courteous, partly as a
covering], it represents an evil number; for instance my con-
duct during the affair in the sleeping compartment of the train.
[He refers to his indecision during a homosexual assault, when
he yielded, although he had clearly understood the situation, and
had urged himself to be firm this time.] R. [a school comrade,
also homosexual, a bad number] Miss v. X. I am angry that I
still think of her and dream of her often."

The Analysis
If we use the material, thus obtained, for interpretation, we
find, in the first place, in the surface layer, on the objective level
(to use Jung's excellent expression) the following:

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The blue horse is the beloved, who is already indicated by
the first ideas that came in the association (the ice bird expresses
her northern quality, the ape her sensuahty, which is further il-
lustrated by other associations; her wish for the air bath and
especially the wish for drink at the hotel). The horse repre-
sents more — the girls who have a magnetic effect, the mother,
whose sexual significance is brought out by the scene in the bath
during childhood.

The green officer, his model, is the dreamer himself, who
rides the horse, his beloved, with whom he made the tour (ride)
that time. A parallel to this is furnished by the first part of the
dream : the forbidden bathing institute, which we have not consid-
ered here as being altogether too long. His sister, who here re-
places the beloved, is the one with whom he carried on most of
his childish tricks and for whom he has a strong transference.

The officer examines the horse with the boy. The latter is
also identified with the dreamer, naturally as his meaner ego, the
ignoble and unaristocratic in him (the south German). The
youth has also been drinking on the tour, like the stable boy and
the student in the story of Harringa. On this occasion the drink-
ing nearly caused a misfortune (the already mentioned difficulty,
the strong excitement). This identification helps us to under-
stand why in the chain of associations about the stable boy there
came up unexpectedly the memory of the seduction scene with
his mother when he was in the bath. By the choice of this
symbol the dreamer measures his own value, saying " I am also
a low down fellow."

The rider and the boy examine the injured fore leg of the
horse. One has been riding the horse too hard. [After-thought
of the dreamer.] The leg, as phallic symbol, is sufficiently de-
termined by the student in the novel, who acquired a venereal
disease whilst drunk, and also by the sexually diseased comrade —
Y. In the same association, we have also the masturbation,
against which our dreamer has been fighting in vain for some

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time. He suffers from his laxness, for, taking him all in all, he
loves the strenuous and controlled. Latterly it has happened that
during masturbation orgasm has not occurred. To all this be-
longs also the complex concerning the wound in his own foot,
which will not heal [a pretty parallel to the wound of Amfortas
in " Parsifal"] and the strange sensation of cutting his own flesh.

Accordingly, the dreamer is also identified with the horse (by
means of the injured leg). And so we have arrived at the lower
stratum, or what Jung calls the subjective-level. The horse be-
comes a symbol of the libido; a symbol of his own libido. In
this stratum, note well, all symbols refer to the dreamer himself,
and they are to be regarded as personifications of the different
tendencies of his psyche. What on the objective level was
designated as the symbol of the beloved, becomes, on the subjec-
tive level, a symbol of that libido which has a tendency towards
the object (the tendency is symbolized by its goal!).

This part of the dream tells us then: L. (the dreamer) has
ridden too hard, something is not right with me, and must be
looked into. A serious complaint (the legs of the horse, the vital
organ in his chest, which hurts him). That is to say, insight is
dawning on the mind of the dreamer. After external separation
from the beloved, the youth remained in correspondence with her
for over a year, therefore, he was still intensely bound up in her
internally. Because of the analysis he feels impelled to break
with her, as he gradually came to see — although merely intel-
lectually— how harmful this adventure had been for his develop-
ment (for mentally he was strikingly backward). Inwardly
he was not willing at the time to break with her ; but he hid him-
self and his opposition behind me, the scapegoat. This dream
shows us a further step in the youth's development. His insight
into his situation, the correct valuation of his adventure, becomes
at the time of the dream emotional, not merely intellectual. This
insight with the double character of intelligence and affect, is very
significant and forms a cardinal point in the cure by analysis;

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for whoever possesses this insight is really acting on his own
principles and conviction and thereby occupies a different rela-
tion towards the analyses from at first. The physician is no
longer one who asserts this or that ; something which one accepts
or rejects, according to the predominance of the positive or nega-
tive attitude, but he has become a leader who sees and points out
what one carries in oneself and only recognizes with difficulty;
the physician is now he who helps one to know oneself better
and how to rule oneself.

The insight of the youth does not tell merely that he is sick
in his inner life, it says more : I employ my libido badly, I injure
myself by using up so much libido on a lower level (the stable
boy). The youth is at good times an extremity bright, nice,
able fellow. This side of him suffers from the other side of his
nature ; he longs for a regulation of his internal conditions, for a
liberation of his soul. On the day after his dream, he told that a
foreign word had persecuted him for some days, the meaning of
which had quite escaped him — "chastete" (chastity). It is in
fact this he longs for, with this he would recover the peace of his
conscience, with this he would attain the valor of his ancestors —
he who had for years muddled through one school after another
and had almost been given up, even by his parents.

In our own speech we would designate this longing of the
youth as a tendency towards the domestication of his libido.

The last part of the dream which deals with the conversation
about the doctor and the number, is little plastic in its manifest
content, and is poor also in its latent content. The reason, I con-
sider, lies herein, that an entire side of the problem of the
development of the libido in the youth is still untouched, he is
not yet capable of clearly viewing the realization of the insight
he has won, much less of bringing it to pass.

Otto, with whom he is conversing, is in his ambivalence a
clearly recognizable identification of the youth himself. He is.

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on the whole, a very serious youth, already a student who stands
up against his colleagues for the professor (in the matter of the
protest) , although he hstens to the talk about women. He speaks
of Dr. D.'s difficulties, his fight in a good cause. Fighting is, in
fact, the formula for the new life of our dreamer, after he has
followed till now almost exclusively his own desires and inclina-
tions. Dr. D. stands, for him, in the place of duty, demands,
conscience; he also calls him, occasionally, his conscience. To
him, whom he has so long feared and avoided, he will take back
the number, which sounds decidedly conciliatory. Even if the
motive is still, perhaps, actually to be called courtesy, a quite pro-
gressive tendency is hinted at, as in the conversation about
abstinence from alcohol. The evil number should be given up,
renounce evil. Doubts still appear, "Will I be able to control
myself unaided in the event of a relapse?" The occurrence of
the symbol north in this connection strengthens the progressive
tendency, for it signifies for him self control (contrast between
the correct north German and the less self-controlled Bavarian).

This imperfectly coordinated segment is for me a symbolic
expression of the future and as yet insufficiently elaborated
material. Of this I see a confirmation in the fact that the prin-
cipal stress of the manifested dream is laid on the wonderfully
beautiful blue color of the horse, by which, in my opinion, is ex-
pressed how strongly the dream is bound up in the enjoyment
principle, how great an attraction enjoyment still holds for him.
This picture contains a valuation, which may serve as a standard
for the dreamer's attitude. The task before the dreamer is the
conquest of the kingdom in which the reality principle, to use
Freud's excellent expression, reigns. We have already stated
that this is a point of cardinal importance in the analysis. It is
the lowest point reached in the analysis, and which also indicates
at the same time the beginning of upward progress.

Quite briefly, I shall point out two other parts of the dream
analysis. The psychoanalyst does not appear merely as physi-

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cian, in the last part ; but also in the middle portion of the dream,
namely, hidden behind the boy and probably also under the form
of the officer. These two conduct the examination. The
dreamer's identification with the boy, points to the negative side
of the transference he feels towards his physician ; the physician
takes the place of the father whom the dreamer fears, it is he who
exacts, who is the cause of the break with the youth's beloved ;
he is not noble (therefore common), not a north German (Swiss
has for the dreamer the same significance as south German).
But gradually the physician has become to the youth a model in
some points, as was once the father of Miss von X. in some
respects. Thus the dreamer identifies the two models. My final
remark refers to the first part of the dream, which, however, I
will not go into in detail, in order not to be too lengthy. This
part of the dream contains essentially a pictured representation
of the childhood and early youth of the dreamer, a time which
was crowded with all sorts of tricks, mostly in company with the
sister already mentioned. This part belongs necessarily to the
gaining of the youth's insight, of which enough has been said;
it completes the account of his life. I must add that the youth
was advanced considerably through this analysis, and that he
attacked the further solving of his problem with great earnestness.

Significance of the Manifest Dream Content

The analysis here presented shows that I attach a greater im-
portance to the manifest dream content than Freud has done up
to this time. I think Jung is of like opinion, but I have never
spoken with him about it specially. I do not wish to place myself
in opposition to Freud in this matter, but would regard this new
point of view as a broadening out of the present interpretation.
The opposition to the Freudian attitude takes the place of the
teaching of the official psychologists, whom, for want of a better
word, I shall call classical psychologists, and who recognize no
psychic value whatever in the dream, and make no distinction

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between the manifest and latent dream content. Freud, on his
discovery of the latent dream content, was obliged to lay the prin-
cipal stress on this, to the detriment of the manifest content.
The complementary or perfecting idea which I suggest to-day, is
therefore to be regarded as a portion of the excursion described
by all discoveries. The above indicated conception of the mani-
fest dream content will in due time induce a revision and an
extension of the idea of the " secondary dream work," which
probably at present is stamped too deeply with the teaching about
repression, and thus in my opinion places the manifest dream-
content in too one-sided a light.

From the example given, it is obvious that there exists a close
connection between the latent and the manifest dream-content.
This seems to me a distinct advantage for the synthetic concep-
tion of the dream. The manifest dream-content, translated by
means of the materials of the latent dream-content, grants us in
a symbolical manner, a picture of the entire situation, or a course
of development of the unconscious processes, the activity of the
libido.

The assumption, made in the present dream analysis, that
there exists a direct relation between the plastic-figurative or
vaguely outlined manifest dream-content, and the clarified-mature
or confused state of the unconscious conflict, has been confirmed
in my analyses during the past months, so that I am inclined to
assume that in the manifest dream-content we are dealing with
intra-psychic perceptions and pictures of the unconscious situa-
tion (according to Freudian terminology), or with auto-symbolic
phenomena (according to Silberer). I would like to submit
these points to my colleagues for investigation. The question of
the appearance of disagreeable affects in dreams takes on a
different aspect in my further interpretation of the manifest
dream-content, from what it possesses when we accept " wish ful-
fillment" as the basic dream formula. The affect is usually
entirely adequate to the actual situation. It is well known that

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there are dreams that remain impressed upon the memory par-
ticularly clearly, and are remembered for years. I have been
able to prove repeatedly, that these pregnant dreams are the
adequate expression of a clarified psychic situation. This prob-
ably applies also to many so-called "typical dreams," to recur-
rent dreams, and perhaps also to a quite different group of
phenomena, that is, to certain cover-memories of childhood.
These expressive dreams may be regarded as hieroglyphic mile-
stones in the course of development of the personality, which
lead the individual to typical life adjustments or to typical reac-
tions.

This insight has become very valuable to me for the stages
of the development of the neurotic conflict, or more generally
speaking, for the development of the personality itself. As a
matter of fact, the careful examination of the pictures of the
manifest dream-content is seen to yield a representation of the
progress of this development. The dream of the blue horse will
be recalled, where the youth shows the insight that his libido
needs attention, as its functions were disturbed by previous events
in his life. Some weeks before this, during a period of strong
resistance, the patient dreamed of people who were swimming
through a canal. In a small boat stands a strong man, who cap-
tures the swimmers with a harpoon. He himself (the dreamer)
looks on, but feels a deep indignation and hatred for the cruel
"fisherman."

The analysis showed that the fisherman symbolized the Last
Judgment, a problem which secretly occupied and worried the
youth at that time. One of the chief associations for this was
Goethe's poem " Prometheus," in which the protest against God
the Father is idealized. A blind and helpless hatred against fate
is evinced in this dream. The patient's insight was still at a
primitive phase, where all evil is deemed as coming from outside,
towards which one is powerless, but which one curses. The
reaction is not directed against his own ^o as the cause of the

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evil. The recognition of having failed towards himself is not yet
reached. It will take time in the ripening process to reach the
place where the patient will understand that the hatred is really
directed against himself, something within him, the archaic libido
(Jung's excellent expression) must die and be offered up, re-
nounced. When he succeeds in doing this, the Last Judgment
will have lost its troublesome character. In the time between the
two dreams related, there has evidently taken place a tremendous
inner assimilation, which expressed itself outwardly as great
progress in adjustment to realities.

In the interval he had a dream of which, as before, I will
give only a few data. A figure appeared in this dream which,
under the form of a member of the family, represented a personi-
fication of the dreamer's evil instincts, and his tendency to self-
indulgence and laziness. During a journey in an express train,
the person spoken of left the compartment and although the
train did not stop he walked towards a house, climbed to the top
of the lightning rod, and then disappeared into the air. This
was all the renunciation that the dreamer was capable of at the
time. If my double " I," the hostile ego, can be got rid of
without greatly disturbing me (the train does not need to stop)
I am quite agreeable to this. The youth desires salvation by
means of a sort of magic; that is, he does not himself as yet
make an eifort. The dream of the blue horse with the examina-
tion of the foot shows more earnestness, a deeper insight, but
the power to act is still small.

From another case I shall take another series of parts of
dreams, which illustrates the progressive evolution of the trans-
ference and the attitude of the dreamer to the sexual question.
(We are now deaUng with a girl of 28 with very marked sexual
repressions.) I shall content myself with giving quite summary
statements. In the night of September 3/4 the lady dreams:
"A trunk has arrived; my sisters A. and M. unpack it. It coiv-
tains a snake; M. shows me how I can cut off its head and take

20 THE DREAM PROBLEM

out its brains, as in a fish, but I recoil in horror." September
23/24 she dreams: "/ took a shoe to a store to get the rubber
heel mended. But they also put a longish piece inside the sole,
which I did not wish. That should only have been done by the
shoemaker who m^de the shoes. As it is done, however, I con-
tent myself and pay fifty centimes." October 11/12 she dreams:
"A squirrel is running in the wood. At last I succeed in catch-
ing it. Like lightning, there comes to me the thought that it
might bite." During the analysis of this dream I learned that
this lady for some time has been interested in soft animals espe-
cially in groundworms. A few weeks before this she still ex-
pressed a most pronounced disgust of these creatures. Another
dream : " I am in the house of Professor Y. I am lying in bed
and he examines the build of my body, declaring that I am
especially well adapted to the bearing of children."

I need hardly mention that I explain these dreams only as
being useful in the development of the lady's feelings, after a
penetrating analysis. So that we are not dealing here with in-
terpretation according to a knowledge of the dream content.

I place great importance on the choice of the pictures and
expressions in the manifest dream content, since the dream
renders an autosymbolic presentation of the psychological situa-
tion of the unconscious. An energetic, purposeful and well-
adapted conduct in the dream, points to a mature and successful
adjustment of the dreamer^ towards the matter in hand. For in-
stance in a dream, there occurred the violent ejection from a
church of a talkative, vain, and uncongenial traveller, whereby
is pictured the serious efforts of the dreamer to overcome the
characteristics of his own ego as caricatured in the travelling
man. As has already been mentioned, in the first example, the
different persons in the dream are personified tendencies of the
dreamer himself. This idea is not new; Freud and Rank
formulated it long ago. But I may be allowed to generalize it,
and would like to add something. A good deal depends, in the

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interpretation, on the part the dreamer himself takes in the
dream, which of the personifications leads in the action (the
Centaur in the Prometheus myth!) for this gives us a hint in
estimating the momentary evolutional phase.

I have repeatedly felt great admiration for the cleverness
shown by the psyche, even of the average individual, in the pro-
duction of plastic, fitting pictures for the actual situation, and I
value the composition of the manifest dream content more highly
than does Freud, who, in my opinion, accentuates the censor
function in a one-sided manner. I see in all this a really artistic
work, a real art of expression, which I would like to place in
some relation to art in general. The dream is perhaps the primi-
tive work of art.

The observation of the last months leads me to suppose that
the dreams which are specially plastic and well constructed (in
which Freud assumes a particularly intense secondary dream
work) represent a clearly grasped and intensely felt situation.
They are often significant, occur on important occasions in life,
for instance, at critical junctures, or as reactions to important
events. These dreams sometimes repeat themselves. In some
cases they reach an extraordinary degree of transparency, so that
they are already intuitively understood by the consciousness of
the dreamer, and are utilized as motives for conscious actions. I
am thinking of a dream which presented the classical motive of
Hercules at the cross roads and always persecuted this lady when-
ever she was in any dangerous position. However, this lady was
remarkable for her very rich and valuable premonitions and for
her fine psychic organization.'

3 My practice brought me a pretty confirmation of this last sentence
just at the moment of my last revision of the manuscript, before
going to print, and I would not like to deprive my readers of it.

A lady, who for the last four days has been imdergoing psychoanalytic
treatment (it is rather a case of orientation than of treatment), told me,
spontaneously, the following dream, to which she herself attached great
importance. (I wish to emphasize that I had not spoken to her one
word about the value and meaning of dreams in psychic treatment.) "I

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Many historical dreams — I am thinking for instance of the
dream of Caesar's mother before his birth, — belong to this class.
A short notice of certain visions of definite character may be per-
mitted here, in which, supposedly, a still more intense working

am with an aunt, long since dead, in my parents' country house. I am
sitting near her; another relative is present. She says to me in her ami-
able, lively and always decided manner : ' Get up. Go to Karl [the hus-
band of the dreamer] and to your children. But put on your pink dress.' "
The lady awoke and is very happy over her dream. Usually she pays
no attention to dreams and seldom has clear or plastic dreams. She sees
in this dream a clear hint of the path she should pursue. The following
is the lady's psychic situation: She is 40 years old, married, mother of
three children, who caused her much trouble lately (difficulties concerning
their education). She loves her husband, respects him greatly, but does
not stand in close rapport with him. She fears him, does not dare to
assert herself. He has a remarkable mentality with a tendency to master-
fulness. The lady had a very sunny childhood and youth, grew up in a
large family. She left her native place when she married. Life, since
then, has brought her many difficulties. She has not yet adapted herself
to her new environment, she longs for her childhood's home or for death.
She has passed through several periods of depression, suffers from certain
phobias. A year and a half ago she heard of psychic cures, through a
relative who was cured, and hoped, without talking about it, to undergo
such a treatment herself. After thinking about it for a long time she at
last succeeded in getting away for a few days in order to ask my advice
as to what she should do. She has a deep nature, but is far from reaching
the degree of psychic development possible to her. (She is already 40!)
She has thought much about her situation. Her self-will tells her she
ought to secure strength from the visits to the physician, in order to
assert herself against her husband, but she also feels this does not promise
to be a good way.

In the three interviews with me, which preceded the dream, I was able
to show her her infantile and inadequate adjustment to her husband, and
the relation of this to the parent constellation. She had then come to
understand that her longing for death was a symbolic expression of her
avoidance of her life problem — that is, to be a mature wife and a loving
and decided mother of her children. She had always expected from her
husband the same exaggerated recognition which all her family had given
her in her youth, and is still annoyed that her husband's way is different.
The day after our third interview came this dream, which told her to go
to her husband and her children with the pink dress on. This dress be-
longs to her youth, she wore it on festive occasions. Otherwise she sits
at home with tears in her eyes, now she is to put on the pink dress. She
is not to go against her husband, but she is to stand in more correct rela-
tions to him than formerly; not in the infantile attitude of constantly ex-

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of the unconscious material has taken place, so that the meaning
has come within reach of the consciousness. The celebrated
visions of Benevenuto Cellini the analysis of which I gave at
the International Congress of Psychotherapy last year (and which
will appear in my book on the " Manner of Cure"), also belong
here.

The same is true of many visions which occur in the course
of religious conversion and in the " Automatismes teleologiques
anti-suicides " of Flournoy.

The Dream in Its Psychic Environment

We shall now go back to the consideration of the dream, and
its relation to the psychic situation; what is known in biology as
the question of environment. Hitherto the dream has not been
sufficiently investigated clinically and has been regarded too much
as a symptom apart.

A thorough investigation from this point of view should bring
a harvest of valuable material for the solution of numerous ques-
tions. For example, I consider the clinical behavior of the

pecting to receive, but in relation of being herself the giver (as wife
and mother). What is confronting her is this after development. The
aunt, we learn, was a prominent educator; the head of a large school and
the only person who understood, when she was a child, how to tell her
what was disagreeable to her (reproof) in such a way that the self-willed
girl had to accept it, and was actually grateful to her aunt. So the aunt
is a personification of a tendency to the mother image. The country
house spoken of is the birthplace of the dreamer's mother and at the same
time the paradise of her own childhood days. The dream urges her to
leave this paradise (to overcome her mother transference), to go into
her own home. Her relation to the physician is the same as to the aunt
who was mentioned as being a great educator.

To one who understands the structure of the dream, this appears very
transparent. The dream signifies the first decided step in the solution of
the lady's task which has so long remained unsolved. It is not merely
the first step in a new direction, but the link in a long chain of circum-
stances, which was prepared by a long elaboration entering into a specially
active phase through the conversations with the relative who was cured
[also a patient of mine]. This example gives another illustration of the
necessity, emphasized in this article, of considering the dream in its broad
relations. This question will be treated in the next part of the text.

24 THE DREAM PROBLEM

dreamer, after the dream, as an essential contribution to the solu-
tion of the contested question of the actual function of the dream.
The mood on awakening, and all next day, may be an important
indication of the success of the dream work. Hints on this
point I have already given in the analysis of the dream of the
blue horse. The so-called "nurse's dream," which will be an-
alyzed in the second part of this part, is a clear negative example
of unsuccessful dream work.

I shall now present to you a convincing example of the success
of a dream, which I take from the third edition of Freud's
" Traumdeutung." On page 317 a number of Rosegger's dreams
are discussed, which I shall quote : " There is a class of dreams
which are well entitled to be considered * hypocritical,' and which
put the theory of wish-fulfilment to a hard test. My attention
was called to this when Mrs. Dr. M. Hiferding brought for dis-
cussion to the Vienna Psychoanalytical Meeting the following
dream by Rosegger. Rosegger, in his Waldheimat (second vol-
ume) says in a story entitled " case A," page 303, " I usually en-
joy healthy sleep but many a night I have no rest. I lead, side
by side with my life as student and litterateur, the shadow life of
a tailor's apprentice. This I have dragged with me through long
years, Hke a ghost, without being able to get rid of it. It is not
true that in the daytime my thoughts are frequently busy with
my early past. From a Philistine I have become one who attacks
heaven and earth and have other things to do. The happy go-
lucky chap could hardly have thought of his nightly dreams ; only
later, when I became accustomed to think things out, or perhaps
when the Pjjiilistine in me asserted himself again, it struck me how
strange it was that when I dreamed at all I was always the tailor-
apprentice, and as such had been working a long time without
compensation in my master's workshop.

"When I thus sat beside him, sewing and ironing, I knew
very well that I really did not belong there any more ; that as city
dweller I had other things to do, but I was always off on a holi-

THE DREAM PROBLEM 2$

day taking my summer vacation, and helping out at my master's.
I was often very uncomfortable and regretted the loss of time in
which I would have known well how to employ myself better and
more usefully. Sometimes I had to endure censure from the
master tailor, if something had not turned out the correct cut or
measure but of any weekly payments there was never even men-
tion. Often when I sat with bent back in the dark workshop, I
made up my mind to give my master notice and to quit. Once
I even did so, but the master took no notice and soon I was
sitting there again, sewing. How happy I was to wake up after
such tedious hours, and then I resolved that if this insistent
dream should come again to throw it off with energy, and to
call out aloud, * It is only a play — I lie in bed and wish to sleep.*
Yet the next night I sat again in the tailor's workshop. So it
continued for years with uncanny regularity. Then once, when
the master and I were at the house of the peasant, where I en-
tered upon my apprenticeship, my master showed himself espe-
cially dissatisfied with my work. ' I would like to know where
your mind goes to,' said he, looking at me angrily. I thought
the most sensible thing to do would be to get up now and tell the
master that I was only helping him from kindness and then go
away. But I did not do it. I calmly submitted when the master
took an apprentice and told me to make room for him on the
bench. I wriggled into the corner and sewed. On the same day
another lad started to learn the trade, and behold, it was the
Bohemian who nineteen years ago worked for us and who at
that time had fallen into the brook, on his way from the inn.
When he wished to sit down there was no room. I looked ques-
tioningly at the master, and he said to me : * You have no talent
for tailoring, you can go, you are dismissed.' I was so fright-
ened by this that I awoke. The dawn was entering the win-
dows of my cozy home. Objects of art surrounded me. In my
well stocked bookcase eternal Homer was awaiting me, gigantic
Dante, incomparable Shakespeare, glorious Goethe, the splendid

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ones, all the immortals. From the next room sounded the clear,
little voices of the awakening children, chattering with their
mother. I felt as if I had just newly recovered this idylically
sweet life of mine — ^peaceful, poetic, spiritualized, in which so
often I had realized human happiness to the uttermost. Yet I
resented it that I had not anticipated my master's dismissal of
me, but had been sent off by him. And how strange it is that
since that night, when my master dismissed me, I enjoy rest; I
dream no longer of my tailoring days that lie in the distant past,
which in their way were so jolly in their simplicity, without de-
mands, and yet threw this long shadow on the later years of my
life."

In this series of a poet's dreams (who in his younger years
had once been a tailor's apprentice) it is difficult to recognize
the wish fulfilment. All he enjoys lies in his waking life, whilst
the dream seems to drag along the ghostly shadow of a joyless
existence which the dreamer at last overcame. Some dreams of
a similar kind have enabled me to give some explanation of this
sort of dream. As a young doctor I worked for a long time in a
chemical institute, without achieving anything much in the arts
there to be acquired and therefore, when awake, never like to
think of this unfruitful and rather humiliating episode of my
student days. Yet it has become a recurrent dream with me,
that I am working in the laboratory and making analyses; all
sorts of things happen and so on — these dreams are as uncom-
fortable as dreams of examinations and never very clear. In-
terpreting one of these dreams, my attention was finally drawn
to the word " analysis " and this gave me the key to the under-
standing of the dream. Since then, sure enough, I have become
an analyst, I make analyses that receive praise — that is, psycho-
analyses ! I understood now that when in the waking life I am
proud of analyses of this sort, and would like to boast how much
success I have had, then, by night, the dream holds up before
me those other unsuccessful analyses of which I would have no

THE DREAM PROBLEM 27

reason to be proud ; these are punishment dreams of the upstart,
like that of the tailor apprentice who has become a feted poet.

But how is it possible for this sort of dream to place itself
in the conflict between the pride of the parvenu and the self
criticism the latter uses, and to take for its contents a sensible
warning instead of an unpermissible wish fulfilment? I have
already said that the answer to this question causes difficulties.
We may assume that an overbearing ambition forms the founda-
tion of the dream. But in place of ambition the repression
and humiliation of the ambition has got into the dream. I may
remind you that there are masochistic tendencies in the psychic
life, to which one might ascribe such an inversion. But closer
examination of some of these dreams gives further revela-
tion. In the vague side issues of one of my laboratory dreams,
I was just at the phase of the darkest and most unsuccessful
year of my career as a physician. I had as yet no standing, and
did not know how to make ends meet ; but just then it was clear
that I might have the choice of several women whom I could
have married ! So I was young again in the dream, and above
all, she was young again, the wife who had shared with me all
these hard years. This betrayed the unconscious dream agent
as being one of the insistent gnawing wishes of the aging man.
The fight between vanity and self criticism, waged in other psychic
layers, had decided the dream content, but only the deeper rooted
wish for youth had made it possible as a dream. Often, awake,
we say to ourselves " Everything is all right as it is to-day, and
those were hard times, but it was fine, at that time ; you were still
young then ! "

According to the suggested interpretation of Freud, the mean-
ing of the dream would be about this : " I wish I were still young,
as I was in the days when I was a tailor apprentice." When I
ask myself if this interpretation explains the clinical findings,
namely the liberating effect of the last dream of the series, I
must answer no. For if I, in dreams, long intensely for my

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youth, I fail to see why the awakening and the making sure
of my later age and present conditions, makes me so happy, as is
actually the case. A second question suggests itself : Why does
only the last dream of the series (when the tailor dismisses the
youth) act in such a manner as to set the dreamer free and to set
him free once for all?

For this dream I make the following suggestion : By his own
efforts Rosegger has worked himself up to a high position in
life. This has made him proud and vain, two qualities which
easily disturb mankind, since they cause a man to suffer in the
presence of superiors and place him in a parvenu position among
the lowly, this not being compatible with a fine sensibility. The
two qualities poison the psyche. Deep down there takes place in
the sensitive poet a gradual elaboration, a development of the
moral personality. Rosegger's ideal conception of life is well
known and justifies my supposition. Accident, in the last few
days, has placed in my hands a private correspondence between
the poet and a literary friend, which treats of just this point —
Rosegger's pride and vanity — which was to me an unexpected
confirmation of the solution just suggested. The long series of
tormenting dreams shows us the development of the psychic
process which ends in a deep but effective humiliation of the
dreamer. After long working for nothing for this master, he is
censured unjustly; a drunkard and a do-nothing is even pre-
ferred to him, and finally he is sent away. He is " made strange "
(dismissed). This being sent away (being dismissed) sym-
bolizes, in my opinion, the overcoming of the pride and vanity of
the upstart. After long struggles the poet is set free. (We
know that the dreams persecuted him for years.) Since his dis-
missal, in the last dream, he may now enjoy, rightfully but
humbly, what he has won by his own exertions — he has won for
himself the moral justification to do so.

Rosegger's dream is then, for me, an autosymbolic expression
of the development of the moral personality of the poet. It is

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well adapted to demonstrate clearly the teleological side of psychic
phenomena. Freud's interpretation refers to a justifiable wish
of the mature, aging man " to be young again." This conception
contains only the regressive side of the phenomena, for such a
wish is a regression. But dreams also contain a progressive side,
which is for me the more important one. We want something
more of life than the longing for the past; the poet wishes to
make something of the life that still remains to him. The work
of his unconscious helps him in this and expresses his progressive
as well as his regressive longings. On this point I shall speak
more freely after the analysis of the so-called nurse's dream.

Types of Dreams

This part of my paper, which deals with the manifest dream
content, I shall close with a short, sketchy classification of dream
categories. You remember the formula that the dream is an
autosymbolic phenomenon. Two extreme kinds may be distin-
guished— between them may be found all degrees of approxima-
tions. Among the first kind we may recognize in the dream the
representation of an intensely active condition of the psyche.
The action is lively or direct, energetic; or the words uttered
are the clear expression of a resolve, etc. This quality may be
made use of in the prognosis, be it in the sense of an intensely
progressive achievement or of an active resistance. In the second
kind of dream the static factor dominates. Indifference, indeci-
sion, vagueness, awkwardness, doubt, stagnation or fixation re-
veal themselves already in the manifest dream content. Such
dreams are apt to occur during times of lazy, passive resistance
or in the incubation period. Also they have a certain prognostic
meaning for the contemporary phase.

I ask myself if there may not be a third category of dreams,
to which another new element strongly contributes — the prospec-
tive outlook ; dreams which are not so much an actual picture of
the situation but rather a vision of the future striven for, and po-

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tentiality contained in the individual. I must avoid being mis-
understood here; of course we are here deahng only with a
realization of a latent power, without taking into account outside
obstacles. AVe are not dealing with a prophetic vision but with a
foresight, with a clew to the direction which is suited to the
reaction and strength of the patient in question. In the course of
this paper I shall come to speak of a certain individual reaction
formula, of a sort of constant which permits of the establishment
of a prognosis, up to a certain point. I assume this to be the
true kernel of the faith in prophetic dreams. Adler, who as we
know has given a definite conception of the psyche, takes a simi-
lar view, and he has, as is well known, given a conception ol
the psyche that is very final and very one-sided. I myself have
reasons to assume that certain so-called childhood memories
give a symbolic outlook on later important experiences in life,
this taking place because of a reaction formula already developed
in the child. Two childhood memories of the artist Benvenuto
Cellini first demonstrated this idea to me. I shall discuss this in
detail in my book already announced, the " Manner of Cure."
This contains an analysis of the Florentine artist. I shall try in
the analysis of the Prometheus myth to carry this idea from the
life of the individual over into that of a people. Just here is
an opportunity to mention that Freud in his beautiful Leonardo
analysis has already formulated this same idea, although his con-
ception is different from mine.

Prospective dreams, of which we are speaking, do not appear
arbitrarily at any moment in life, but only at the suitable moment.
In two papers I have already pointed out the significance of the
first dream in the treatment.* Steckel and perhaps others of
whom I cannot think just now have also done this. These first
dreams frequently (always) belong to this last category. This
whole field is still open to research as all else of which I have
spoken to-day. A fine rich work is still open before all of us!

* Zentralblatt, ist year, p. 348, and in " On the Function of the Dream;'
Jahrbuch, Vol. 4.

the dream problem 3 1

On the Question of Symbolism in Dreams
When I look over my interpretation of symbols during the
last two years, it is clear to me that gradually, and at first quite
unconsciously, a change came about in my interpretations. The
content of the symbol is no longer monovalent, but has come to
be of wider meaning. The sexual interpretation has become,
so to speak, the first step, in some respects only the preliminary
step, and the significance of the contemporary situation of the
dreamer rather has been drawn into the matter more and more.
An opportune discussion of the so-called actual conflict in neu-
rosis by Jung (in the Psychoanalytic Conference), nearly two
years ago, confirmed me in my orientation and helped me in this
change of view. On the actual conflict I shall still say some-
thing in this paper to-day. I will now enter more fully into the
question of the interpretation of symbols. It can be best dem-
onstrated by means of an example.

In the third edition of the "Dream Interpretation" Freud
gives a short symbol interpretation, which I would like to use as a
starting point. This is the dream of a young man (p. 207) : "He
is in a deep tunneled passage, in which there is a window, as
in the Semmering tunnel. Through this he sees, at first, an
empty landscape, and then he composes a picture into it, which
is there immediately and fills out the void. The view is now
that of a field deeply ploughed up by an instrument and the fine
air, the idea of the work so well done, the blue black clods of
earth, make a pleasing impression on the dreamer. Then he goes
further and sees a book on pedagogics open before him. He is
surprised that in it so much attention is paid to the child's sexual
feelings, and that makes him think of me [Freud] ." The inter-
pretation given is that this is a phantasy of the young man who
takes advantage of his intra-uterine opportunity to spy upon the
coitus between his parents. The associations of the young man
are not given.

It is not difficult for us to recognize the tunnel picture as an

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exteriorization of certain parts of the body, i. e., the uterus and
the vagina. The ploughing of the field is a well-known coitus
symbol. This dream interpretation is evidently built on the
knowledge of these two symbols but gives us no solution for
the second part of the dream, which contains the open book on
pedagogics.

I accept this interpretation as a preliminary step of the inter-
pretation itself. In his "Transformations and Symbols of the
Libido " Jung has called our attention to the problem of re-birth.
I myself became better acquainted with this subject summer
before last, by means of my analysis of the visions of the Floren-
tine B. Cellini. In this dream here there seems to be a similar
symbol, for as soon as I accept this hypothesis, the whole dream,
part I and part II, becomes entirely clear. " The young man is
still in the uterus and looks out," would be the meaning of the
first picture, which in conscious speech might be thus expressed :
he is still on the path of his mental regeneration (development)
— for the idea of re-birth is an archaic picture for mental de-
velopment, as Dieterich has shown. The young man looks out
and sees a field being ploughed thoroughly. The field is not
merely a sexual symbol but is also a symbol of the field of ac-
tivity, the young man's own life task. To plough the field Goes
not mean merely coitus, but " to do his work." The young man
sees a new life, full of work, before him after his cure is com-
pleted (birth). The emotional element of the dream fits very
well to this. By this process of thought the meaning of the last
part of the dream has also become clear ; the dreamer's new field
of work has been more definitely pointed out ; he will seek occu-
pation as a teacher, out of love for his analyst, and bearing in
mind the events of his own psychoanalysis. To guide others is
to guide oneself.

This interpretation gives us a picture of activity ascribed to
the role of the analyzer; to the patient himself it gives an orien-
tation in his efforts and the course of his cure. Of what use,

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pragmatically considered, would be to him the interpretation of
the dream as the spying on the sexual intercourse between his
parents? Freud's interpretation I regard as a preliminary step
of the actual interpretation. It is, so to speak, the picturesque
material which must be translated into the intellectual, — it gives
the " whence " of the symbol, but not the " whither." To put it
differently, it gives the retrospective, but not the prospective.
Jung once expressed this idea picturesquely, when he said "the
unconscious speaks a pidgin English which must be translated
into the language of cultured men." Adler's saying that the
sexual speech of neurosis is a "manner of speaking" is prob-
ably to be taken in the same sense.

This two-sided nature of the symbol I explain in my analyses
as follows : The searching out of the symbols may be compared
to contemplating a tree of which one considers the subterranean
parts, the roots, and the upper part, the trunk, branches, leaves,
etc. In the case of the symbol, the sexually symbolic is like the
root, the intellectual content of the symbol is like the trunk and
branches.

You will permit me another brief example as illustration:

rain magic and fertility magic among savage peoples, and which

are preserved even to-day in some customs of our peasants here,

when regarded retrospectively prove themselves to be entirely

frank coitus symbols. But they are not such only — they are

more than this. They represent a frank attempt on the part of

primitive man to represent and to influence a process of nature,

that is, fructification. He is only using, because of his distinctly

anthropomorphic tendency, materials from a procedure well

known to him, in order to gain a new conception. This is the

outcome of prospective reflection. As a matter of fact, we may

regard the concept of magic as the mythical stage of meteorology

and of chemistry as applied to agriculture. Thus modestly appear

the beginnings of our distinguished sciences."

5 See the rich ethnological literature for clews to literature and as
reference book W. Wundt's " Folk Psychology."

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It was my original intention to show, by means of Parsifal,
how the Freudian symbology stops short on its way to the right
goal of its task, and thereby becomes unfruitful, but I must re-
serve this intention for a later publication, as it would make
this paper too long, and I shall therefore content myself with
pointing out that tracing back the grail and the lance to the fem-
inine and masculine genitals gives us an explanation only as to
the original source of these symbols, but not as to their real con-
tent. A recent analysis of the Prometheus myth gave me lately
a quite analogous experience; that is to say, the Freudian myth
analyses really contain only the beginning of the actual analyses ;
this explains, to a great extent, why they are so little understood
by those who are not initiated. These analyses are like the de-
cipherings of the alphabet of an unknown language, but they do
not arrive at a knowledge of the words themselves. Proofs of
this I shall give shortly.

In the interpretation of symbols we must not stop short at
the concrete sexual act ; it is our task to connect the prospective
conception with the retrospective. Freud himself, as I gladly
admit, was the first to give this interpretation by correlating
rescue phantasies of the neurotic with birth dreams. For the ulti-
mate interpretation of the rescue phantasies leads directly to
the motive of re-birth. Putnam, two years ago, gave a discourse
in our circle which, as I believe and regret, was little under-
stood. In it he very clearly indicated the position just taken.
The last sentence of his address, which might well serve as a
motto for this part of my paper, was this : " Rightly we boast of
having thrown light, from one side, on the significance of the
church-steeple. But there still remains to us the more important
task of learning to understand its other significance with equal
precision."

It is not difficult to understand why some change in our
methods has become necessary. What made psychoanalysis as a
method so fruitful till now was the systematic introduction of

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genetic thinking into psychology. Research is directed primarily
towards origins, towards the past. But research would become
paralyzed if it remained for any length of time one-sidedly retro-
spective. A new field of work is now before us and awaits our
efforts. The prospective road leads to reality; it promises us,
therapeutically, the most important insight, just as the retro-
spective road once meant for us a great scientific gain. Biology,
which has traced the phylogeny of the under jaw of man back
to the gill arches of the fish, after making this important dis-
covery returned to the lower jaw of man in order to examine and
better understand its structure and function. We, ladies and
gentlemen, are in a similar position now, and must clearly admit
it, in order to continue our work. The fine American lectures
which Jung has just published, are a clear expression of this.'*'

The prospective capacity, which after the numerous experi-
ences of the last few years, we may ascribe to the libido (and
here the merits of Jung are to be prominently accentuated), and
from which we assume that it develops a lively activity in the
unconscious, stands in close relation to the function of the symbol.
We have progressively learned to interpret the symbolism as the
mythical organ of knowledge, and the symbol itself as expres-
sion of as yet vaguely grasped reality. I must remind you of the
first mythical step in knowledge by Auguste Comte, and the im-
portant contributions of H. Silberer. In his book " On the
Formation of Symbols," Silberer presents an early type of the
symbol which he defines as follows: "The first type of the
symbol originates when the idea, unhindered by disturbing con-
current ideas (concurrent affect-accentuated complexes), is
visualized on the basis of this apperceptive insufficiency as an idea
which has arisen on an intellectual basis.'

This first type of symbol offers a theoretical basis for my

6' Theory of Psychoanalysis, Monograph Series, No. 19,
8 Silberer's orientation is closely allied to ours in Ztirich, aimough
the two points of view have arisen independently.

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conception — entirely empiric — of the preparatory and preparing
function of the dream (or of the unconscious). The possible
suitable solution of the conflicts are gropingly searched for and
expressed by the symbol. We must here eliminate entirely the
question of the intuition, which plays so prominent a part in the
philosophy of Bergson. All this aspect of the symbol spreads
beyond the confines of the thus far accepted " censor," and shows
the necessity for testing and broadening our conception of dream
psychology.

The Tendencies of the Vienna and Zurich Schools in
Psychoanalysis

Freud has given me occasion to suppose, in a recent publica-
tion, that I must have expressed myself in my work on the func-
tion of the dream so as to be misunderstood,'^ for he there ascribes
to me ideas which, as a matter of fact, are not mine.

In this publication, to be found in Vol. i of the International
Zeitschrift fiir Psychoanalyse, 1913, there is a dream, in the
analysis of which, among other things, there is to be found an
indirect confession of a deed done the day before. Freud here
shows that this dream has a deeper meaning than only the com-
paratively unimportant confession read out of the translation of
the symbol. " So it is proved that there is no necessity to admit
there are confession dreams, just as it is senseless to speak of
reflection dreams or warning dreams." This assumption is re-
garded as a regression to the preanalytic period.

I consider Freud entirely right when he shows that such a
dream is not yet analyzed if the confession was read out of it
and when he speaks of the regressive point of view of such an
analyzer. But I must contradict him if he assumes such a point
of view to be mine. I am glad to be able here to express clearly
that this is an entire misunderstanding. In order to clear up the
situation, I have decided to interpret this dream myself according

TJahrbuch, Vol. IV.

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to the material at our disposal. I suppose the analysis, which
I will now make for you, would be the same if made by some
Zurich colleague of mine. Thus it will be possible for me to
contrast the two interpretations which now exist in the psycho-
analytic movement.

I must begin by saying that the particular dream is that of a
nurse, and was analyzed by a lady patient of Freud's, and that
Freud himself accepted the interpretation and carried it some-
what deeper.

A lady suffering from doubt and compulsion neurosis de-
mands of her nurses not to be permitted out of their sight one
moment, as otherwise she begins to worry about what forbidden
thing she may have done during the time she was not watched.
One evening she is resting on the couch ; she fancies she sees that
the nurse on duty has dropped asleep. She asks : " Did you see
me ? " The nurse starts up and answers : " Yes, certainly." The
patient now has grounds for a new doubt and repeats the same
question after an interval. The nurse again asserts she was
awake and at that moment the maid brings in the evening meal.
This happens on a Friday evening. Next morning the nurse
tells a dream which scatters the doubts of the patient. The
nurse's dream: She was given the care of a child and she lost
it. On the way she asks people on the street if they have seen
the child. Then she reaches a large sheet of water and goes
across a small foot path. (Later she adds that on this path the
nurse is suddenly before her like a mirage.) Then she finds her-
self in a neighborhood she knows well and there meets a woman
she knew as a girl, and who at that time was a saleswoman in a
grocery store, but later she married. This woman is standing
before the door and the dreamer asks her: Have you seen the
child f But the woman is not interested in this question and tells
her she is now separated from her husband, adding that even in
marriage there is not always happiness. Then the dreamer

38 THE DREAM PROBLEM

awakes, quieted, and thinks the child will probably be found at
some neighbor's house.

I must put aside a good deal of material and direct the reader
to Freud's previously mentioned publication. I content myself
with repeating the interpretation there given and shall then give
my own.

The lady's interpretation of the dream establishes that the
nurse is disturbed at having failed in the fulfilment of her duties
and is afraid of being dismissed on that account. Therefore the
dream contains a sort of confession. We must emphasize that in
the morning the nurse tells the lady the dream, and added that
Friday is often an eventful day for her. (It was a Friday when
the incident occurred.)

This interpretation is accepted by Freud, but he broadens and
completes it, since he discovers the "deeper meaning of the
dream," the dream- forming wish that originates in the uncon-
scious. The wish appears as follows : " Very well I did close my
eyes and so compromised my reliability as a nurse; now I shall
lose this place. Shall I be as stupid as X. who went into the
water? No, I won't be nurse any longer, anyway, I mean to
marry, be a wife, have a child of my own. Nothing shall prevent
this." This last interpretation is not actually built on ideas of
the dreamer, but as Freud says, " on our knowledge of dream
symbolism." (The water, the whale in the myth of Jonah, the
narrow path.)

In the interpretation which I will now put before you, I shall,
as in my first example, distinguish between an objective and a
subjective phase.

The child who has been lost is, of course, the patient entrusted
to the nurse ; the dreamer might lose her place and thereby come
to the same condition as X. who committed suicide (mirage).
The married woman who is asked about the child and who is only
interested in her own affairs is, first, the sick lady, who bothers
the nurse quite a little with her neurosis. It is evident that the

THE DREAM PROBLEM 39

nurse has a typical aunt-transference to this lady, in which there
is a distinct element of defiance. (The analyzing lady has not
recognized herself in the dream, because she is represented in
too uncomplimentary a manner.) The qualification of the sales-
woman in the grocery store must refer, in this phase, to the em-
ployer from whom the dreamer receives her food. Freud draws
attention to another source, which is certainly correct — ^that is,
infantile symbolism, the qualification no doubt also applies to the
aunt, and also to the mother of the nurse. But the married
woman without doubt is also the aunt, as Freud assures us.
(The dreamer knows the place well ; also notice the circumstance
that she ignores the nurse's questions about the child, like the
aunt who was greatly opposed to a former suitor of the nurse.)
Therefore we get this meaning: neither my employer nor my
aunt bother much about me, they are only interested in their
own affairs. The circumstance that the conversation takes place
before a door in a well-known spot, leads me to suppose that this
refers to the mother and to the dreamer's own birth. Therein
we find an accusation against the mother, and also an excusing of
herself from the fault committed. I have been made this way,
have been brought up so, it is not my fault. This makes compre-
hensible the last sentence of the dream, the child will probably be
found at some neighbor's house; I need not take the matter so
seriously.

Now we will take the dream in its subjective phase: the child
entrusted to her, and which she lost and was seeking across the
sheet of water, whence she met the mirage, is her own valuable
personality, still a child, which ought to grow up and was lost as
the day before she had again showed herself to be unreliable in
her work and defiant, irritable towards her patient. We may as-
sume that the incident of the day before the dream was only a
repetition of innumerable faults which were reawakened on this
day of misfortunes (Friday). The nurse finds herself before a

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difficulty typical to her and she reacts typically. Witness the
aunt-mother transference.

The lost child must be found, the submerged moral person-
ality must be born again, and she actually stands near a great
water, to which belongs the thought of the Jonah myth. The
joke of wriggling Jonah, which belongs in the original material,
has not been used in the interpretation given us, but it belongs
here. The nurse does similarly, she wriggles out of her diffi-
culty ; she does not take the matter seriously ; why bother herself ?
The child will be found at some neighbor's house. I can't act
differently, I have not been taught (accusation of aunt, mother) .
Rebirth (alias moral development) the nurse does not succeed
in obtaining; she is content with some superficial consolation.
Therefore, we don't expect to find any liberation, any relief from
her depression. As a matter of fact we know that after the
dream she remains defiant, does not confess her fault, is irritable
and so forth, — that is, she remains stuck in her typical pre-
dicament. But the nurse must also be identical with the former
seller of foods, for we expect to find after the definition of the
dream which I have to-day set forth, that on sufficient analysis
all figures in the dream will resolve themselves as personifica-
tions of tendencies of the libido. It is so here also, since the
nurse does not sufficiently trouble about her patient; she sleeps
during her hours on duty ; probably she dreams a good deal about
her own affairs. The marriage and separation of the woman in
the dream no doubt refer to her own unfortunate love-affair, as
Freud has shown.

This dream, then, gives us a pictured representation of the
nurse's psychic situation at the time of the occurrence we are
reporting. It expresses the insufficient attempts of the dreamer
to develop the ethical personality. It contains references to a
new birth; but also to the failure of the same and at last the
dreamer assumes the attitude of resigned indifference. Accord-
ing to my conception this is not merely a confession dream,

THE DREAM PROBLEM 4I

although Freud ascribes that opinion to me. The dream may be
recognized indirectly (in that it is told to the lady) and also
directly (by the analysis) as a confession. But in the psychic
menage of the dreamer it has a greater significance than either of
these, for it pictures in symbolic speech, a typical psychic reac-
tion of the dreamer to a given stimulus from the outer world.
Its meaning goes much beyond its cause. The loss of the place
would not have been of such great importance to the nurse ; such
employment is easy to get. It deals with the actual conflict of
the dreamer, or rather, it deals unmistakably with her actual life-
problem. I think I am speaking entirely in Jung's meaning of
the " actual conflict " and similarly as Riklin has done in an ap-
parently greatly misunderstood essay in the Correspondenzblatt
f. Schweizer Aerzte, except I would prefer the expression "ac-
tual expression of the life-task" to "actual conflict."

I would be greatly pleased if the contrasting of these two dif-
ferent interpretations of the same dream might serve to bring
about a better understanding of my conception, all the more as I
am convinced there is no difference of principle involved, but
only a broadening, or rather a deepening, in that we take the
question from its strictly sexual into the general psychological
field.

In order to be rightly understood, I will try to outline my atti-
tude to Freud's interpretation. The nurse fails in one place,
she is not capable of adjustment, her libido undergoes retro-
gression. Experience teaches us that in this situation of the
libido, sexual excitement easily takes place (notice the onanism
of neurotics, following discomfitures of any kind). In a girl,
the wish for love, marriage, and a child, which is justified bio-
logically as well as psychologically, can fulfil itself in phantasy.
This confirms Freud's interpretation. If I ask myself, how can
it be possible that two different interpretations of the same dream
may be correct, there comes to me an idea that I have long har-
bored, without following it out sufficiently thoroughly and sys-

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tematically. It is this : The wish of the girl for love and a child
is an expression of the pleasure-principle, whilst the picture of
the nurse's faulty adjustment to life and her reaction is the work
of the reality principle. The dream, as I interpret it, describes
the faulty adjustment to reality. The two fundamental prin-
ciples of psychic happening, as formulated by Freud, ought to be
demonstrable in the psychic phenomena ; therefore in the dream
as well as elsewhere. For the last two years I have gradually
received the impression that in psychoanalysis we have first
learned to know the pleasure principle and its numerous mani-
festations, thanks to Freud ; whereas, the reality principle as the
younger child has been somewhat neglected, and that its further-
ing is essentially the work of the Ziirich school with Jung at its
head. The following from Freud's interpretation seems to me
a confirmation of this. " The wish, * I want a child,' seems to be
more adapted to help the nurse over the unpleasant situation of
the reality." It looks like a distinct accentuation of the pleasure
principle on Freud's part. You are aware that the principal idea
of my contested article on the " Function of the Dream," is as
follows : " In the dream there is at work a preparatory arranging
function which belongs to the work of adjustment." This is a
clear expression of the emphasis I place on the reality principle.
The two main principles here mentioned are after all only
an expression of the two typical forms of activity of the libido,
progressive and regressive. They are, metaphorically expressed,
two channels at the disposal of the libido current. The important
point is the proper distribution of the same. They are also com-
parable to two voices which, more or less harmoniously, sing
the song of life. In neurosis, as in the first phase of cure by
analysis, the voice of regression drowns the other; this can be
proved in numerous dreams which are to be found in literature ;
I have therefore avoided giving examples. It is true that in
all these dreams traces of the drowned voice of progression are
demonstrable. It is to this point, it seems to me, that the analyst

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of the future should attach the most importance, for we are first
and foremost healers, and therefore it is our duty to point out to
our wandering patients the light that shines in the distance. This
gleam of light is to serve them as a lighthouse in the storms of
passion. In the course of the treatment the voice of progression
will gradually become louder, until it finally takes the dominant
note. The connection between pleasure and displeasure prin-
ciple and the cathartic function, on the one hand, and between
the reality principle and the preparatory function on the other
can here be merely indicated. An outburst of anger, to avoid
internal tension, the striving for satisfaction by replacements,
are frank unloadings (cathartic cleansings) ; the weighing and
representing of the solution of a conflict prepares for freedom
and leads to reality.

I am at the end of my presentation. You will be Justified in
remarking that I have not tried to test the subject from all sides ;
I have, for instance, passed over the dream as a guardian of sleep,
and left polemics aside. I did not do so in order to lighten my
task; I may say for my justification that I primarily desired to
handle those points which have become somewhat clear to me, I
have also striven to bring as much positive material as might be
useful for the discussion. I hope that the gaps I have been
obliged to leave may be filled out by my colleague to your satis-
faction.

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Some General Remarks on the Principles of Pain-Pleasure and of Reality. Paul Federn i

The Unconscious. W. A. White 12

The Theory of Psychoanalysis. C. G. Jung 29

A Plea for a Broader Standpoint in Psychoanalysis. M. Solomon 52

Technique of Psychoanalysis. S. E. Jelliffe 73, 191, 286, 409

Contributions to the Psychopathology of Everyday Life: Their Relation to Abnormal

Mental Phenomena. R. S. Miller 121

The Integrative Functions of the Nervous System Applied to Some Reactions in Human

Behavior and their Attending Psychic Functions. E. J. Kempf 152

A Manic-Depressive Episode Representing a Frank Wish-Realization Contruction. R. Reed 166

Psychoanalytic Parallels. W. A. White 177

Psychoanalysis. C. G. Jung 241

The Role of the Sexual Complex in Dementia Precox. J. C. Hassall 260

Psycho-Genetics of Androcratic Evolution. T. Schroeder 277

Some Studies in the Psychopathology of Acute Dissociation of the Personality. E. J.

Kempf 361

Psychoanalysis. A. H. Ring 390

A Philosophy for Psychoanalysts. L. E. Emerson 422

Critical Digests
Religion and Sex. An Account of the Erotogenetic Theory of Religion as Formulated

by Theodore Schroeder. J. S. Van Teslaar 81

Some Freudian Contributions to the Paranoia Problem. C. R. Payne 93, 200

Translations

Wishf ulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales. F. Riklin 102, 203, 327

The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences. O. Rank and H. Sachs, 297, 428

Abstracts
Internationale Zeitschrift fiir Aertzliche Psychoanalyse.

Vol. I, No. 5 :••. : 106

Hate and Anal Erotic in the Compulsion Neuroses. E. Jones.

The Symbol and the Psychical Conditions of its Formation in Children.

Beaurain.
The Ontogenesis of Symbols. S. Ferenczi.
Some Remarks on the Doctrine of Tendencies. L. Jekels.
The Psychology of Child Sexuality. V. Tausk.

Vol. I, No. 6 228

The Disposition to Compulsion Neurosis. A Contribution to the Problem of

the Choice of a Neurosis. S. Freud.
The Psychopathology of a Case of Phobia. M. Prince.
Stuttering, — A Psychoneurosis and its Treatment by Psychoanalysis. M, D. Eder.

Vol. H, No. I 346

On False Recollection ("deja raconte") during Psychoanalysis. S. Freud.
The Attitude of the Psychoanalytic Therapeutist to the Actual Conflicts. E.

Jones.
Some Clinical Observations on Paranoia and Paraphrenia. (A Contribution to

the Psychology of " System Formation.") S. Ferenczi.
Prof. Dr. Ernst Diirr and his Relation to Psychoanalysis. O. Pfister.

Vol. II, No. 2 458

Contributions to the Analysis of Sadism and Masochism. II. The Libidinous

Sources of Masochism. P. Federn.
On the Nosology of Male Homosexuality (Homoeroticism). S. Ferenczi.
On the Constitutional Basis of Locomotor Anxiety. K. Abraham.
Imago.

Vol. I, No. 3 113

Some Similarities in the Mental Life of Primitive and Neurotic People. — The

Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotional Excitations. S. Freud.
Colored Audition ; An Attempt to Explain the Phenomenon on the Basis of

Psychoanalysis. H. v. Hug-Hellmuth.
The Cause of Chromesthesias Associated with Acoustic Impressions and the
Meaning of Other Synesthesias. O. Pfister.
i Symbolic Representation of the Principles of Pleasure and Reality in (Edipus

\ Myth. S. Ferenczi.

Contents of Volume II. — Continued

Page

Vol. I, No. 4 219

Some Similarities in the Mental Life of Primitive and Neurotic People. — II.

The Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotional Excitations. S. Freud.
Amenhotep IV (Echnaton). Notes on the Psychoanalytic Interpretation of his

Personality and on the Monotheistic Cult of Aton. K. Abraham.
The Meaning of Salt in Folklore. E. Jones.
J. P. Jakobsen's " Niels Lyhne " and the Problem of Bisexuality. H. Blueher.

Vol. I, No. 5 341

The Influence of Sexual Factors on the Origin and Development of Language.

H. Sperber.
The Meaning of Salt in Folklore. E. Jones.
The Psychology of Travel. A. F. v. Winterstein.
Psychoanalytic Notes on Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften. J. Harmik.
Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. S. Ferenczi.
Reply to Dr. Ferenczi. J. J. Putnam.
Zentralblatt fiir Psychoanalyse,

Vol. Ill, Nos. 4-5 224

The Role of the Unconscious in the Neurosis. A. Adler.
The Terminations of Psychoanalytic Treatments. W. Stekel.
Changes in the Freudian School. C. Fortmuller.
Concerning the Psychogenesis of Bronchial Asthma. M. Wulff.
Zentralblatt fiir Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie.

Vol. Ill, Nos. 6^7 226

Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. J. Putnam.

Analytic Remarks on the Painting of a Schizophrenic. H. Rorschach.

The Condition of " Being Possessed " in the Rural Districts of Russia. M.

Lachtin.
Terminations of Psychoanalytic Treatments. W. Stekel.

Vol. Ill, Nos. &-9 465

Our Understanding of the Mental Connections in the Neuroses and Freud's and

Adler's Theories. O. Hinrichsen.
Concerning the Fundamental Characteristics and Aims of Present Day Ration-
alistic Psychotherapy. W. M. Lichnitzky.
Content and Terminological Justification of the Term Psychoanalysis. F. Gruner.
Progress of Dream Interpretation. W. Stekel.

Vol. Ill, Nos. lo-ii 465

Concerning the Treatment of Stuttering. E. Froschels.
A Psychological Contribution to the Question of Alcoholism. J. Birstein.
The Question of Genesis and Therapy of Anxiety-Neurosis by Means of the
Combined Psychoanalytic Method. U. A. Wyrubow.

Vol. Ill, No. 12 466

Psychotherapy and the Philosophy of Schopenhauer. O. Juuusburger.
Dream and Dream Interpretation. A. Adler.
Disguises of Religiosity. W. Stekel.

Miscellaneous Abstracts
Die Ambivalenz, von Prof. Dr. E. Bleuler 466

Book Reviews

Psychoanalysis. Its Theories and Practical Application, by A. A. Brill 118

Love and the Soul-Maker, by Mary E. Austin 233

The Skeleton in the Closet, by Clarence S. Darrow 235

Dreams and Mylhs, by Dr. Karl Abraham 236

A Text-Book of Insanity and Other Mental Diseases, by Charles Arthur Mercier 238

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero. A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology,

by 0. Rank 354

The Origin and Nature of the Emotions, by George W. Crile 355

Psychology and Parenthood, by H. Addington Bruce 356

The Individual Delinquent ; A Text-Book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All Concerned

in Understanding Offenders, by William Healy 469

Ecce Deus. Studies of Primitive Christianity, by William Benjamin Smith 472

Sleep and Sleeplessness, by H. Addington Bruce 475

Varia

Ceremonial Consummation, by Elsie Clews Parsons 358

Sex Values, Extract from The New Machiavelli, by H. G. Wells 359

Dreams, Extract from Protagoras the Humanist, Papyri of Philonous 360

Marriage and the Will to Power, by Elsie Clews Parsons 477

One of Our Conquerors : A Study of Repression, by V. H. Mottram 478

The Harlequin of Dreams, by Sidney Lanier 480

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ORIGINAL ARTICLES Page

Critical Historical Review of Reil's Rhapsodieen. By William A. White 1

The Family Form of Pseudo-sclerosis and Other Conditions Attributed to the Len-
ticular Nucleus. By William G. Spiller 23

Speech Conflict — A Natural Consequence in Cosmopolitan Cities — As an Etiological
Factor in Stuttering. A Preliminary Report Based on 200 Cases. By May Kirk
Scripture and Otto Glogau 37

SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS

American Neurological Association , 47

The Development and Operation of the Laws for Hospital Observation of Cases of
Alleged Mental Disease or Defect in Massachusetts (Stedman) ; Preliminary Report

• on the Treatment of Paresis by Injections of Salvarsan and Definite Doses of Neo-
salvarsan into the Lateral Ventricle (Hammond and Sharp) ; A Case of Wilson's
Disease — Progressive Lenticular Degeneration — with Pathological Findings (Tilney
and Mackenzie) ; Histopathological Findings in a Case of Landry's Paralysis ; Dem-
onstrated by Lantern Slides and Microphotographs (Fisher) ; Observations on
Hereditary Syphilis Affecting the Nervous System (Camp) ; Circumscribed Puru-
lent Meningitis Limited to Frontal Lobe; Due to Sinusitis (Leopold) ; Meningitis
Sympathica (Strauss) ; A Case of Central and Peripheral Neurofibromatosis (von
Recklinghausen's Disease) (Bassoe and Nuzum) ; A Frequency List of Mental
Symptoms found in 17,000 Institutional Psychopathic Subjects (Danvers State Hos-
pital, Massachusetts) (Southard).

Philadelphia Neurological Society 57

Cerebellar Diplegia (Cadwalader) ; Arterio-sclerosis with Symptoms Resembling
Pseudo-bulbar Palsy of Gradual Onset (Price) ; Famihal Myoclonus (Rhein) ;
Multiple Sarcoma of Brain (Rhein) ; Regeneration of Peripheral Nerves (Green-
man) ; The Psychology of Stammering (Makuen).

TRANSLATIONS

Vegetative Neurology: The Anatomy, Physiology, Pharmodynamics and Pathology of

the Sympathetic and Autonomic Systems. By Heinrich Higier 73

The Dream Problem. By Dr. A. E. Maeder 81

PERISCOPE

Jahrbiicher fiir Psychiatric und Neurologie. (Vol. 34, parts i and 2.) Study of the
Histories of German Brain-Pathology ; Korsakow's Psychosis in Japan ; Daily Variations
in the Electrical Conductivity of the Human Body; Involution Phenomenon in Cases
with the Clinical Picture of Brain Tumor ; The Influence of Political Events in Mental
Disorders ; Dystrophy Adiposus-genitalis in Chronic Hydrocephalus and in Epilepsy ;
Changes in the Official Diagnosis Plan for Insane Institutions (92).

Review of Neurology and Psychiatry. (Vol. XII, No. 7.) A Case of Amaurotic
Family Idiocy; The Action of Adrenalin and Epinine on the Pupil in Epilepsy (93).

Archiv fiir Psychiatric und Nervenkrankheiten. (Band 52, Heft i.) Recent Syphilis
Investigation and Neuropathology; A Contribution to the Study of Aphasia, with
Special Reference to Amnesic Aphasia ; The Distribution of Fiber Degeneration in
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, with Special Reference to Changes in the Cerebrum ;
Clinical and Anatomical Contribution to the Study of the Occlusion of the Posterior
Inferior Cerebellar Artery; Heredity in the Psychoses (94). (Heft 2.) Contributions
to the Pathological, Anatomical and Clinical Study of Cerebral Hemorrhagic Pachy-
meningitis ; Heredity in the Psychoses ; The Failure of the Corneal Reflex in Organic
Nervous Disease ; Family Cortical Spasm ; Pathological Anatomy and Pathogenesis of
Granular Ependymitis (95). (Heft 3.) A Retrospect in Connection with the Twenty-
fifth Jubilee of Prof. Dr. Emil Sioli as Director of the Frankfurt Insane Hospital;
The Cerebrum of the Rabbit ; Psychoneuroses in Heart Disease ; The Anti-Social Actions
of Epileptic Children; The Use of Pyrogenetic Methods in Psychiatry; A Contribution
to Operative Treatment of Epilepsy ; A Contribution to the Mistaken Diagnosis of
Hysteria ; On Supernumerary Phalanges ; Dementia Paralytica Among the Jews ; A
Case of Motor Apraxia ; Association Experiments in Young Epileptics ; A Contribution
to Our Knowledge of Mental Disturbances in Eclampsia; Clinical Diagnosis and Patho-
logical Findings in General Paralysis ; The Significance of Lowy's Phenomenon in the
Diagnosis of Cerebral Arteriosclerosis; Psychic Disturbances During Labor (96).

BOOK REVIEWS

The Ethical Implications of Bergson's Philosophy (100). Psychology, General and Applied
(loi). Mental Medicine and Nursing (102). Progressivism — and After (103). Syrian
Anatomy, Pathology, and Therapeutics; or. The Book of Medicines (104).