ABSTRACT
In the dream, Ariadne was going happily towards an interesting, characterful house in which she knew that both her grandparents and great-grandparents had lived, and where her parents lived now. This dream brought to mind the remark Ariadne had made when they had both realized that because lecturing trips abroad would be followed by events in her own professional life, there would be an interval of five weeks before they could meet again. This was an important turning point in Ariadne's treatment and cleared the way for the dreams which stimulated her awareness of the 'rhythm of safety'. Verena Crick has drawn attention to the similarity of Ariadne's dream to the theme of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, in which, by the playing of a magic flute, the hero and heroine go safely through the dangers which beset them The dream was a kind of parable about dealing with evil.
