ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the dream that interests is typical. It features many of the people who influenced Sigmund Freud's life, sometimes replacing one with another, or combining several different players into one character. The words themselves, used in recounting the dream, create a tangle of unconscious thoughts and feelings that intertwine and reach far back into the past. In this dream, which Freud had a few days after the inauguration of a sculpture to honour Fleischl at the university, there are several revenants. In the dream, Freud annihilates his rival, who is also his friend. The interpretation of this dream reveals that Freud's emotional life required the intimacy of friendship and the hostility aroused by a rival. The figures in the dream are revenants in a double sense, since they are tied to a childhood event, when he and his nephew played Caesar and Brutus, John in the role of Caesar and Sigmund in the role of Brutus.
