ABSTRACT
In The Interpretation of Dreams Freud warns anyone novice to this field of research against judging the interpretation of a dream to be fully concluded as soon as one has attributed meaning to all its elements. The topic of bisexuality had, after all, been an object of discussion and controversy with Fliess during their summer meeting, compromising their relationship. The neurotic component of Freud's male friendships was not only represented by his ambivalence, by his need to have both a trusted friend and a hated one, but was also evident in the homosexual traits he himself acknowledged much later in his life. Freud claimed on several occasions that desires that manifest themselves in dreams are of the erotic kind, and these desires are "repressed infantile sexual wishes". However, Freud's analysis of this dream never goes so deep as to bring to light these infantile, repressed, sexual wishes.
