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however, seems quite collapsed. His father asks him what this is all for; he is
surprised at it, but he explains it to his father. They come into a court in which
lies a large sheet of tin. His father wants to pull off a big piece of this, but first
looks around to see if any one is watching. He tells his father that all he needs
to do is to speak to the watchman, and then he can take without any further
difficulty as much as he wants to. From this court a stairway leads down into
a shaft, the walls of which are softly upholstered something like a leather
pocketbook. At the end of this shaft there is a longer platform, and then a new
shaft begins… .” Analysis. This dream belongs to a type of patient which is
not favorable from a therapeutic point of view. They follow in the analysis
without offering any resistances whatever up to a certain point, but from that
point on they remain almost inaccessible. This dream he almost analyzed
himself. “The Rotunda,” he said, “is my genital, the captive balloon in front is
my penis, about the weakness of which I have worried.” We must, however,
interpret in greater detail; the Rotunda is the buttock which is regularly
associated by the child with the genital, the smaller front structure is the
scrotum. In the dream his father asks him what this is all for—that is, he asks
him about the purpose and arrangement of the genitals. It is quite evident that
this state of affairs should be turned around, and that he should be the
questioner. As such a questioning on the side of the father has never taken
place in reality, we must conceive the dream thought as a wish, or take it
conditionally, as follows: “If I had only asked my father for sexual
enlightenment.” The continuation of this thought we shall soon find in
another place. The court in which the tin sheet is spread out is not to be
conceived symbolically in the first instance, but originates from his father’s
place of business. For discretionary reasons I have inserted the tin for another
material in which the father deals, without, however, changing anything in the
verbal expression of the dream. The dreamer had entered his father’s
business, and had taken a terrible dislike to the questionable practices upon
which profit mainly depends. Hence the continuation of the above dream
thought (“if I had only asked him”) would be: “He would have deceived me
just as he does his customers.” For the pulling off, which serves to represent
commercial dishonesty, the dreamer himself gives a second explanation—
namely, onanism. This is not only entirely familiar to us, but agrees very well
with the fact that the secrecy of onanism is expressed by its opposite (“Why
one can do it quite openly”). It, moreover, agrees entirely with our
expectations that the onanistic activity is again put off on the father, just as
was the questioning in the first scene of the dream. The shaft he at once
interprets as the vagina by referring to the soft upholstering of the walls. That
the act of coition in the vagina is described as a going down instead of in the
usual way as a going up, I have also found true in other instances[12]. The
details that at the end of the first shaft there is a longer platform and then a
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zurĂĽck zum
Buch Dream Psychology"
Dream Psychology
- Titel
- Dream Psychology
- Autor
- Sigmund Freud
- Datum
- 1920
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- PD
- Abmessungen
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Seiten
- 114
- Schlagwörter
- Neurology, Neurologie, Träume, Psycholgie, Traum
- Kategorien
- Geisteswissenschaften
- International
- Medizin
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction 4
- Chapter 1: Dreams have a meaning 9
- Chapter 2: The Dream mechanism 20
- Chapter 3: Why the dream diguises the desire 34
- Chapter 4: Dream analysis 43
- Chapter 5: Sex in dreams 54
- Chapter 6: The Wish in dreams 67
- Chapter 7: The Function of the dream 79
- Chapter 8: The Primary and Secondary process - Regression 89
- Chapter 9: The Unconscious and Consciousness - Reality 104