In the same year in which the little girl started her butterfly collection, the region in which they were staying suffered much from a pest of June bugs. The children made havoc among the bugs, and _crushed_ them cruelly. At that time she saw a person who tore the wings off the June bugs and ate them. She herself had been born in June and also married in June. Three days after the wedding she wrote a letter home, telling how happy she was. But she was by no means happy. During the evening before the dream she had rummaged among her old letters and had read various ones, comical and serious, to her family—an extremely ridiculous letter from a piano-teacher who had paid her attention when she was a girl, as well as one from an aristocratic admirer.[DK] She blames herself because a bad book by de Maupassant had fallen into the hands of one of her daughters.[DL] The arsenic which her little girl asks for recalls the arsenic pills which restored the power of youth to the Duc de Mora in _Nabab_. “Set at liberty” recalls to her a passage from the _Magic Flute_: “I cannot compel you to love, But I will not give you your liberty.” “June bugs” suggests the speech of Katie:[DM] “I love you like a little beetle.” Meanwhile the speech from _Tannhauser_: “For you are wrought with evil passion.” She is living in fear and anxiety about her absent husband. The dread that something may happen to him on the journey is expressed in numerous fancies of the day. A little while before, during the analysis, she had come upon a complaint about his “senility” in her unconscious thoughts. The wish thought which this dream conceals may perhaps best be conjectured if I say that several days before the dream she was suddenly astounded by a command which she directed to her husband in the midst of her work: “_Go hang yourself_.” It was found that a few hours before she had read somewhere that a vigorous erection is induced when a person is hanged. It was for the erection which freed itself from repression in this terror-inspiring veiled form. “Go hang yourself” is as much as to say: “Get up an erection, at any cost.” Dr. Jenkin’s arsenic pills in _Nabab_ belong in this connection; for it was known to the patient that the strongest aphrodisiac, cantharides, is prepared by _crushing bugs_ (so-called Spanish flies). The most important part of the dream content has a significance to this effect. Opening and shutting the _window_ is the subject of a standing quarrel with her husband. She herself likes to sleep with plenty of air, and her husband does not. _Exhaustion_ is the chief ailment of which she complains these days.