5. Castration dreams of children.
(a) A boy aged three years and five
months, for whom his father's return from military service is clearly
inconvenient, wakes one morning in a disturbed and excited state, and
constantly repeats the question: Why did Daddy carry his head on a
plate? Last night Daddy carried his head on a plate.
(b) A student who is now suffering from a
severe obsessional neurosis remembers that in his sixth year he
repeatedly had the following dream: He goes to the barber to have his
hair cut. Then a large woman with severe features comes up to him and
cuts off his head. He recognizes the woman as his mother.
Table of
Contents
THE DREAM-WORK
Condensation
I.
II. "A Beautiful Dream"
B. The Work of Displacement
C. The Means of Representation in Dreams
D. Regard for Representability
E. Representation in Dreams by Symbols: Some
Further Typical Dreams
The hat as the symbol of a man (of the male
genitals):
The little one as the genital organ. Being run
over as a symbol of sexual intercourse.
Representation of the genitals by buildings,
stairs, and shafts.
The male organ symbolized by persons and the
female by a landscape.
Castration dreams of children.
A modified staircase dream.
The sensation of reality and the
representation of repetition.
The question of symbolism in the dreams of
normal persons.
Dream of a chemist.
Examples- Arithmetic and Speech in Dreams
Absurd Dreams- Intellectual Performances in
Dreams
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
The Affects in Dreams
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
The Secondary Elaboration
