ABSTRACT
Serguei Constantinovitch Pankejeff was twenty-three years old when he consulted Sigmund Freud. Due to the dream he became known as “the Wolf-Man”. He had become depressed after contracting gonorrhoea when he was eighteen and his depression had worsened after his father committed suicide when Serguei was nineteen and then worsened further when his sister also committed suicide two years later. The wolves represent the young Serguei’s aggression, which he realizes is getting him into trouble. Serguei became dissociated from his aggressive, sexual, wolf-like, life force and became “castrated”. While he awoke to a fear of being devoured by the wolves, at the time of the analysis with Freud he had fallen back into passivity. In contrast, a possible Jungian interpretation might go as follows, assuming that there is no disguise in the dream, no reversal, and taking into account the dreamer’s situation at the time of the dream.
