ABSTRACT
We know how difficult it often is to interpret the dream of a patient undergoing psycho-analytic treatment. He is as though ‘warned’ and avoids producing dreams that are easily translatable and which finally he could interpret for himself. It is otherwise with the great mass of people who have no inkling of psycho-analysis. To understand the dream one must know that the dreamer is a well-built person of thirty-eight to thirty-nine years of age, who, in spite of being apparently in every way well suited for motherhood, remained single and chose the calling of sick nurse. The author had to interpret the peculiar coffin birth phantasy, the doubt whether the sister was alive or dead, as the identification of the dead sister with a living person.
