ABSTRACT
While undergoing psycho-analytic treatment, a female patient had the following dream: ‘I was sitting in a basket-chair near the wall of a house which was at the edge of a big lake. The chair was standing right on the water. There were boats on the lake and many people swimming in it. I saw two men in a boat, a young one and an older one. As the boat was approaching me there came a gust of wind which made a huge wave rise just behind the boat and engulf it and its occupants. The people who were swimming in the lake were drowned as well. Only one person, a woman, kept herself above water. She swam up to me and clutched at my chair. I thought that I could stretch out my leg for her to hold on to; but I had just as little sympathy for her as for the other unfortunate people, and I did nothing to help her’.
