When little Anna Freud dreamt that she was feasting on all sorts of dainties, no elaborate technique was needed to ferret out the enigma of such a vision. When Ferenczi's patient, however, saw herself strangling a white dog, the wish-fulfilment formula, applied indiscriminately, would have given poor results. _To the patient_, the white dog symbolized a snarling woman with a very pale face. Dream interpretation must never be attempted without the dreamer's assistance. Snakes are _almost always_ sexual symbols, but if on the day preceding the dream the subject was frightened by a snake or killed one or played with one, we should require a good deal of other evidence before we could safely assert that a snake dream on that night indicated fear, desire or repression of sexual cravings. A tooth pulling dream related by a subject who expects to go through the ordeal of dental extraction should not be hastily admitted to be a symbolical dream. Even apparently obvious dreams may assume an entirely different complexion when we inquire into the associations which every detail of them conjures up from the subject's unconscious. A year ago or so a Chicago woman sued her husband for divorce because he had been, while talking in his sleep, saying endearing things to his stenographer. That woman was both right and wrong. The fact that her husband dreamt of his stenographer was evidence that the girl was "on his mind," consciously or unconsciously. But we could not, without examining the husband's unconscious reactions decide to what extent the stenographer herself, as a distinct personality, obsessed him. Every man is more or less of a fetichist, irresistibly attracted by certain details of the feminine body, for ever seeking those characteristics and appreciating them above all others wherever found. When only one such characteristic and no other attracts a man, the man is known as a perverse fetichist. When the various fetiches which attract a man are found in one woman, let us say red hair, dark eyes and a slender build, we have the foundation for a passionate and durable love. When only one of those characteristics is found in a woman, that characteristic is bound to attract the man's attention regardless of the interest or lack of interest the woman may present for him. A red haired woman, while otherwise totally unattractive, might, to a red hair fetichist, symbolize the beauty he seeks and intrude into his dream pictures, _although she personally could not attract him sexually in his waking state_. Every one has had the experience of embracing in dreams some person who in the waking state would not inspire the dreamer with any desire. If we analyse carefully the appearance of the "ghostly love" we will in every case notice that he or she is endowed with a certain characteristic which is one of the constituting elements of our "love image." The Chicago woman should have taken her troubles to an analyst, not to a judge.