The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text by Sigmund Freud & James Strachey

Author:Sigmund Freud & James Strachey [Freud, Sigmund & Strachey, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General
ISBN: 9780465019779
Amazon: 0465019773
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010-02-23T06:00:00+00:00

Typical example of a disguised Oedipus dream:

A man dreams: He has a secret affair with a woman whom another man wishes to marry. He is concerned lest the other should discover this relation and abandon the marriage; he therefore behaves very affectionately to the man; he nestles up to him and kisses him. - The facts of the dreamer's life touch the dream-content only at one point. He has a secret affair with a married woman, and an equivocal expression of her husband, with whom he Get any book for free on: www.Abika.com

INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS

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is on friendly terms, aroused in him the suspicion that he might have noticed something of this relationship. There is, however, in reality, yet another factor, the mention of which was avoided in the dream, and which alone gives the key to it. The life of the husband is threatened by an organic malady. His wife is prepared for the possibility of his sudden death, and our dreamer consciously harbours the intention of marrying the young widow after her husband's decease. It is through this objective situation that the dreamer finds himself transferred into the constellation of the Oedipus dream; his wish is to be enabled to kill the man, so that he may win the woman for his wife; his dream gives expression to the wish in a hypocritical distortion. Instead of representing her as already married to the other man, it represents the other man only as wishing to marry her, which indeed corresponds with his own secret intention, and the hostile wishes directed against the man are concealed under demonstrations of affection, which are reminiscences of his childish relations to his father.

36 For the mythological meaning of water-birth, see Rank: Der Mythus von der Geburt des Helden, 1909.

37 It was not for a long time that I learned to appreciate the significance of the fantasies and unconscious thoughts relating to life in the womb. They contain the explanation of the curious dread, felt by so many people, of being buried alive, as well as the profoundest unconscious reason for the belief in a life after death, which represents only the projection into the future of this mysterious life before birth. The act of birth, moreover, is the first experience attended by anxiety, and is thus, the source and model of the affect of anxiety.

38 `The same symbolic representations which in the infantile sense constitute the basis of the vesical dream appear in the ``recent'' sense in purely sexual significance: water =

urine = semen = amniotic fluid; ship = ``to pump ship'' (urinate = seed-capsule; getting wet = enuresis = coitus = pregnancy; swimming = full bladder = dwelling-place of the unborn; rain = urination = symbol of fertilization; travelling (journeying-alighting) =

getting out of bed = having sexual intercourse (honeymoon journey); urinating = sexual ejaculation' (Rankin, I, c.).

39 Freud, Charakter und Analerotik; Rank, Die Symbolschictung, etc.; Dattner, Intern. Zeitschr. f. Psych. i, 1913; Reik, Intern. Zeitschr. , iii, 1915. 40 For such a dream

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