ABSTRACT
From the psycho-analyses of many patients we become acquainted with the infantile idea, which is retained in the unconscious, that the daughter has been made a girl by castration on the part of the father. Recently a female patient told me a dream in which the determination of her sex was assigned in this way to her father. The process, however, was different from that which I have met before in dreams, and was, besides, located in the period before the patient’s birth. The dream was as follows :
