I have discussed elsewhere in a lengthy contribution, the _Representation of the Neurosis in Dreams_.[44] In this dream the trouble is symbolized by a stiff finger. “Playing the piano” is again a symbol for sexual intercourse as well as for masturbation. Probably the symbol here has acquired its emotional coloring from the masturbation habit. But the heterosexual meaning is also obvious (piano playing—coitus). If we interpret the dream we have: The housekeeper, that false cat who played a dependent rôle towards my parents, made me ill with her long-continued tendernesses (A cat bit me on the left index finger and held on for a long time). The trouble grew worse, something valuable tore in me (the ability to love a man) and the homosexual form of love established itself permanently (stiffening). Now I am incapable of loving a man, I cannot be a mother or raise a family of my own,—a wish that has already cost me so many tears (the water flowing out of the wound). * * * * * Perhaps this interpretation will be doubted as something artificial and rather forced. But the subject recalls further details of the dream and relates them subsequently. Such additions are of extraordinary significance because usually they contain the censured, the repressed material. She recalls that the cat was going to bite her at first on the foot (significant because of the proximity of the sexual parts). Further on she relates a continuation of the dream: _The water flowed down the steps. I ran to a friendly woman physician for aid to my wound. On the way I met her unexpectedly in the neighborhood of a merry-go-round. Then my sister speaks up saying: “She will fix your finger in good shape right away.” The woman physician retorts: “I am sorry, but I do not operate.” She sends me instead to a surgeon (male)._ The interpretation is not difficult. There is a great deal of weeping. Her tears inundate her whole soul (House as symbol of soul). At first she is looking for a woman healer. A woman shall cure her trouble. Life is a merry-go-round, everything in life revolves, she may yet be happy. But the woman physician gave her the correct answer. You need a surgeon. _Only a man can heal thee._ I do not operate. I am not the one to awaken your femininity (defloration?). A further supplementary account shows that the finger became the muzzle of a repeating revolver. _Pfister’s_ interpretation that this is a phallic symbol and that it shows the dreamer’s phantasy that she was a male with a phallus, may be correct. Every homosexual woman has the wish to transpose the psychic state into an actual physical condition. But another possible meaning of the repeating fire arm seems to me more plausible. The subject’s traumatic incident had the effect of facilitating subsequently other homosexual experiences. _The traumatic experience required repetition._