ABSTRACT
The phallic imagery in Norman's dreams demonstrates a fundamental and recurring conflict: the need to overcome an insufferable sense of impotence and inferiority by an assertiveness which is equally threatening. There is considerable agreement with regard to the picture of Norman which emerges from his dreams and from the case material. Sometimes this agreement involves rather broad aspects of his personality, and sometimes it has to do with specific behaviors which are evident in both his dreams and his waking life. These areas of agreement are considered as well as the relationship between our common findings and those of other investigators. Finally, differences between the dream and other data either with respect to what they tend to emphasize or which involve actual disagreements are examined. The principal areas of disagreement, or at least differences in emphasis, between Norman's dreams and the other data, have to do with the following topics: preoccupation with the body; failure of control; and externalized superego.
