ABSTRACT
The snatching of the flowers in the childhood memory are the symbolic code for wishing to deflower his dream woman and Freud acknowledges that it is precisely the "coarsely sensory element in the phantasy" that prevents it from developing consciously. Freud travels to his childhood home, meets his dream girl, only to lose her; he then goes to University to study, taking pleasure and solace in his Alpine walks. Freud's dandelions are the screen memories that come to him through his unconscious fantasies and perceptions of the young woman he falls for in his adolescent passion. For the day lily, the inner distances between the ego and its ideal have been crossed, and the latter is returned as a living presence and meeting of the self and its desires, not spiritual transcendence. The lily poems represent changing shapes and forms of not only flowers but also of the psyche and soul.
