6. A modified staircase dream.
To one of my patients, a sexual
abstainer, who was very ill, whose phantasy was fixated upon his mother,
and who repeatedly dreamed of climbing stairs while accompanied by his
mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would probably have
been less harmful to him than his enforced abstinence. The influence of
this remark provoked the following dream:
His piano teacher reproaches him for
neglecting his piano- playing, and for not practicing the Etudes of
Moscheles and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum. With reference to this he
remarked that the Gradus, too, is a stairway, and that the piano itself
is a stairway, as it has a scale.
It may be said that there is no class of
ideas which cannot be enlisted in the representation of sexual facts and
wishes.
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
