ABSTRACT
Naturally it was the female partner and not the patient who took precautionary measures; she does actually protect herself from consequences by means of an occlusive pessary.' Instead of protecting yourself with the fish bladder and the woman with the pessary, the people infect themselves as it were with the bladder-shaped instrument, that is, they impregnate themselves.' ‘Infection in dreams very often represents pregnancy in symbolic fashion. It is, however, no accident that the people demonstrate their incapability just on the genitals and the procreation of children; they are aware that they have often confirmed how despondent them were as a child, dispirited by the imposing size of their father and especially by his wealth of children. That the dream succeeded in representing the wish-fulfilment, the child, out of the same material, that of the rubber pessary, which could easily have aroused in the people most unpleasant thoughts of a lifelong childlessness does their capacity for dreaming the greatest credit.’.
