ABSTRACT
In Fran's world the advent of maternal benevolent omnipotence was both an achievement and a trap. In the Wolf Man the drama rushes toward a dream which Sigmund Freud translated into Father overpowering Mother from the rear. In another instance, Vera, an experienced therapist, presented a related dream of one of her patients. In this dream her patient, Lois, came to watch her stage a puppet show. Killers are often victims in their dreams. In one instance a woman, who showed no remorse over killing a friend's daughter, was repeatedly menaced in her dreams by a man with a snake's head which itself was covered with snakes. The question of who or what carries the God function for the subject and how one's ultimate sense of power is distributed at a given time is critical for understanding the nature of the subject's distress and the direction of his or her movement.
