ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the specific dreams by patients during psychical crises of both lesser and greater moment. These dreams in their symbolical import are typical and so may be of value to the intending practitioner. At the beginning of the analysis, the falling asleep and the sucking of the cushion were themselves ways by which the patient began a healing process, being in fact comparable to the early suckling period. In the dream there is an hallucinatory return to the original sources of gratification which were also dramatized in the sucking of the cushion. It is a pleasure dream in which the instincts are directed in a normal manner to the objects of desire at the oral level. Periods of excessive anxiety, of deep depression, of suicidal phantasies, of physical illness were all experienced in due course by the patient.
