ABSTRACT
The patient is a 43-year-old married movie producer who had been in analysis for just over a year when this dream occurred (he has come up in some previous case studies). Of importance in the past history is that he recalls often having been beaten by his mother. The parents divorced when he was 10 years old. He had an endless series of torrid sexual affairs with various actresses and, at times, prostitutes. This behaviour ended rather quickly after he had begun his analysis and learned how much this behaviour represented his anger towards—as well as his hidden desire for—his mother.
