Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis : $b a course of twenty-eight lectures delivered at the University of ViennaFreud, Sigmund
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Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis : $b a course of twenty-eight lectures delivered at the University of Vienna
Freud, Sigmund
Psychoanalysis
“_... Then someone broke into the house and in terror she cried for a
watchman. But the watchman, accompanied by two tramps, had gone into a
church, which had several steps leading up to it. Behind the church
there was a mountain and, up above, a thick wood. The watchman wore a
helmet, gorget and cloak, and had a full brown beard. The two tramps,
who had gone along peaceably with him, had aprons twisted round their
hips like sacks. A path led from the church to the mountain and was
overgrown on both sides with grass and bushes which grew denser and
denser, and at the top of the mountain there was a regular wood._”
You will recognize without any trouble the symbols here employed: the
male organ is represented by the trinity of _three_ persons appearing,
whilst the female sexual organs are symbolized by a landscape with a
chapel, a mountain and a wood, and once more you have the act of going
up steps as symbolic of the sexual act. The part of the body called in
the dream “a mountain” is similarly termed in anatomy the mons veneris.
7. I will tell you another dream which is to be explained in the light
of symbolism, a dream, moreover, which is noteworthy and convincing from
the fact that the dreamer himself translated all the symbols, though he
brought no previous theoretical knowledge to the interpretation. This is
a very unusual circumstance and we have no accurate idea of the
conditions which give rise to it.
_He was walking with his father in a place which must have been the
Prater,[41] for they saw the Rotunda with a little building in front of
it, to which was made fast a captive balloon which looked rather slack.
His father asked him what it was all for; the son wondered at his
asking, but explained it nevertheless. Then they came to a court-yard,
where a large sheet of metal lay spread out. His father wanted to break
off a big piece, but looked round first in case anyone should notice
him. He said to his son that all the same he need only tell the overseer
and then he could take it straightaway. Some steps led down from this
court to a shaft, the sides of which were upholstered with some soft
stuff, something like a leather armchair. At the bottom of this shift
was a rather long platform and, beyond it, another shaft._
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