(3) "I wanted to get into a house, but could not find the way in. Suddenly our doctor" (in this case, as so often, a father substitute) "came along and said: 'A doctor always goes in by the window'. From a bag he brought out a long elastic instrument" (phallic symbol). "with which he opened a window on the first floor" (symbol of sex intercourse). "We entered and I found it was my mother's bedroom. The doctor said 'You should now go to sleep' and I prepared to go to bed." As will be seen from these examples, the initiation idea may be easily combined with the idea of returning to the mother's womb discussed in the last chapter. This combination is perhaps still more clearly shown in the following dream of the patient, who provided Example 2. "I was on a boat sailing on a river or canal which gradually became narrower and shallower. Finally the boat grounded on a sandy bottom. I got out and walked up a staircase into a cathedral where some ceremony was going on, in which I took part."] [Footnote 71: Thus in a case known to me the inhibition in question constituted one of the principal factors in the production of a very prolonged condition of sexual impotence in married life.] [Footnote 72: Sir J.G. Frazer, "Totemism and Exogamy." IV. 228.] [Footnote 73: Sir J.G. Frazer, "Balder the Beautiful." II. 239.] [Footnote 74: _Op. cit._ II. 243, 246.] [Footnote 75: _Op. cit._ II. 253, 259.] [Footnote 76: _Op. cit._ I. 22.] [Footnote 77: A careful study of these all important aspects of the initiation ceremonies has recently been made by Th. Reik (Die Pubertätsriten der Wilden, _Imago_, 1915, IV. 125, 189) from whose work many of the statements and conclusions here given have been taken.] [Footnote 78: An amnesia the production of which is often facilitated by the use of intoxicants.] [Footnote 79: Sir J.G. Frazer, _op. cit._, I. 22.] [Footnote 80: Sometimes apparently this procedure is very successful. Thus a well known psychologist has told me: "On passing every illumination during the night of the Jubilee, my father, who was carrying me, smacked me 'to make me remember the day'. I was four, and I have remembered!"] [Footnote 81: In many of these, as for instance the nautical practice of ducking or "keel hauling" those who are crossing the equator for the first time, it is possible also to trace certain typical symbols of the re-birth phantasy.