ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the consideration of all that was said by a patient during an hour in which a dream was related. It provides the significant psychical events of the two analyses that followed the particular hour and the phase of analysis that developed from it, because only so can one gauge whether one's interpretations are helping to bring the repressed and suppressed emotional attitudes phantasies or affective memories to conscious understanding. Then he remembered the dream, a long and exciting dream from which he awoke hot and perspiring. The deduction concerning the significance of the whole dream is that it is a masturbation phantasy. The task of analysis is to reduce the fear of the aggressive wishes experienced in his first three years. The terror of the aggressive wish and its Ehantastic consequences will be modified only by ringing this wish to consciousness, and only so will the libidinal wishes not continue to mean death.