ABSTRACT
[Dr. Jung repeated the dream of the last seminar with the patient’s associations for the benefit of those who had not heard the earlier seminars. He also added some further suggestions to the patient’s associations, and spoke of the decorations of the rooms at the bottom of the sea as similar to those of the Tonhalle here—at carnival time. The dreamer says these scenes remind him of the aquarium at Naples, but there were many more compartments here than in that aquarium. The peculiar rough tables and hard benches remind him of public festivals and pageants, which he dislikes. It is disagreeable sitting on hard benches, and the gaiety seems to him forced. The next part of the dream seems to him just a brothel, with scenes of his own reminiscences describing the quality of the place. The two prostitutes whose name was Kaiser convey nothing to him, but he has a feeling that those two sisters are particularly important people, though they are evidently prostitutes. The word Kaiser implies importance and it may also be a play on words. He says that after having experienced the unconscious images one should be able to experience orgiastic scenes without particular excitement. Dr. Jung asked him why he thought so, and he said, “When you look at pictures from the unconscious, you see so many difficult and disagreeable things that these scenes in the dream would convey very little in the way of excitement. A man who knows himself would even be able to share such orgies, to watch them as though he were reading about them in a book.” He says that the figures of policemen and officers hanging by strings are mere marionettes, and associates them with his fear of authority.] 1 Dr. Jung
As soon as something goes beyond his experience, he is exceedingly afraid, and wants some authority to lean on, so it is not improbable that his guess about the marionettes has something to do with the authorities, but I am not clear what his association really means.
