Part 92

Footnote CW:

In spite of all the differences between Scherner’s conception of dream symbolism and the one developed here, I must still assert that Scherner should be recognised as the true discoverer of symbolism in dreams, and that the experience of psychoanalysis has brought his book into honourable repute after it had been considered fantastic for about fifty years.

Footnote CX:

From “Nachträge zur Traumdeutung,” Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse, I., No. 5 and 6, 1911.

Footnote CY:

“Beiträge zur Traumdeutung,” Jahrbuch für Psychoanalyt. und psychop. Forsch., Bd. I., 1909, p. 473. Here also (p. 475) a dream is reported in which a hat with a feather standing obliquely in the middle symbolises the (impotent) man.

Footnote CZ:

Cf. Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse, I.

Footnote DA:

Or chapel-vagina.

Footnote DB:

Symbol of coitus.

Footnote DC:

Mons veneris.

Footnote DD:

Crines pubis.

Footnote DE:

Demons in cloaks and capucines are, according to the explanation of a man versed in the subject, of a phallic nature.

Footnote DF:

The two halves of the scrotum.

Footnote DG:

See Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse, vol. i., p. 2.

Footnote DH:

This Hebrew word is well known in German-speaking countries, even among non-Jews, and signifies an unlucky, awkward person. (Translator.)

Footnote DI:

In estimating this description of the author one may recall the significance of stairway dreams, referred to on p. 246.

Footnote DJ:

The fantastic nature of the situation relating to the nurse of the dreamer is shown by the objectively ascertained circumstance that the nurse in this case was his mother. Furthermore, I may call attention to the regret of the young man in the anecdote (p. 172), that he had not taken better advantage of his opportunity with the nurse as probably the source of the present dream.