ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some of the important information that can be gleaned from a dream, in particular: some possible symbolic meanings of death, violence, marriage, sex, gender, and bodily functioning; and the location: what can be told from the “background” of the dream. People dream of trying to find a toilet, or getting there to find it occupied, or dirty, or in an exposed place; sometimes they are looking to urinate, sometimes to defecate. Time frames, like locations, are frequently mixed up in dreams, which again reflect Sigmund Freud understands of the unconscious as having the characteristics of timelessness and absence of mutual contradiction. In death, something is passing away—it is important to consider what it is that is dying off. Violence and fights can stand for different kinds of “engagement”, whether it is an example of competitiveness, a struggle for power, or even a form of sexual encounter.
