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
(_a_) _The dreamer was going on a journey and his luggage was being
taken to the station on a carriage. There were a number of trunks piled
one on the top of the other, and amongst them two large black boxes like
those of a commercial traveller. He said consolingly to someone: “You
see those are only going as far as the station.”_
He does, as a matter of fact, travel with a great deal of luggage, and
he also brings many stories about women to the treatment. The two black
trunks stand for two dark women who at the moment are playing the
principal part in his life. One of them wanted to follow him to Vienna,
but on my advice he had telegraphed to put her off.
(_b_) A scene at a customs house:—_A fellow-traveller opened his trunk
and said nonchalantly, smoking a cigarette: “There is nothing to declare
in that.” The customs official seemed to believe him, but felt in the
trunk again and found a strictly prohibited article. The traveller then
said in a resigned way: “Well, it can’t be helped.”_ The dreamer himself
is the traveller and I am the official. He is generally very
straightforward with me, but had made up his mind to conceal from me a
relation which he had recently formed with a lady, for he assumed quite
correctly that I knew her. He displaces on to a stranger the
embarrassing situation of being detected, so that he himself does not
seem to come into the dream at all.
9. Here we have an example of a symbol which I have not yet mentioned:—
_The dreamer met his sister with two friends who were themselves
sisters. He shook hands with these two, but not with his sister._
There was no real episode connected with this in his mind. Instead, his
thoughts went back to a time when his observations led him to wonder why
a girl’s breasts are so late in developing. The two sisters, therefore,
stand for the breasts; he would have liked to grasp them with his hand,
if only it had not been his sister.
10. Here is an example of death symbolism in dreams:—_The dreamer was
crossing a very high, steep, iron bridge, with two people whose names he
knew, but forgot on waking. Suddenly both of them had vanished and he
saw a ghostly man in a cap and an overall. He asked him whether he were
the telegraph messenger.... “No.” Or the coachman?... “No.” He then went
on_, and in the dream, had a feeling of great dread; on waking, he
followed it up with the phantasy that the iron bridge suddenly broke and
that he fell into the abyss.
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