Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. VII, Eonism and other supplementary studies / by Havelock Ellis.

  • Havelock Ellis
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[1928], ©1928
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    time she saw him, wished to make love to her but for whom she felt no response. He appeared, and the dream continues in the subject’s words: “With him there is a boy of eight or nine years of age. He is a beautiful bronze color, like some Indian, brown eyes and hair [she recalled later that he was like an attractive picture she had recently seen of Otto Braun as a boy], and is absolutely naked. I admire him intensely. I talk to him and he replies in a deep musical voice. Then my favorite brother comes on the scene and admires him, too. He puts his arm around him caressingly and touches the boy’s penis. I am worried and wonder how I can tell him to desist without attracting the boy’s attention. Then I am relieved for my brother has stopped. They fade away. I still seem to be in the same place. I hear the noise of an aeroplane (they always fascinate me) and run to look at it. I see it take a dive and am horrified. Then I see it again with relief. The scene changes. I am in a field with several other people and a number of men are flying, but instead of aeroplanes they have wings, strapped to their waists, which open out as they fly. They offer to let me and other women try. The wings are strapped on and we start running round a sort of course. Soon I feel my wings have caught the wind and I soar most deliciously for a few moments. Then I come down again. I try hard by running round to rise again but the wind always seems wrong. The wings are taken off and we hand them on to a fresh crowd of people. Before summarizing the results of these dreams of flying it may be helpful to refer to the most instructive investigation of this dream-type hitherto made. Mourly Void, whose pos¬ thumously published work in experimental psychology, Ueber den Trcium, is a classic in the study of dreaming, by the methodical care with which it was carried out and the scientific caution in the statement of its conclusions, devoted a certain amount of attention to flying dreams.1 Mourly Void definitely associates flying dreams, not only with unsupported soles of the feet but with respiration (though respiration of a light and agreeable kind), even as a sine qua non, but he admits he was not able to bring forward objective evidence of this association. He also attaches a certain signifi- 1 Professor J. Mourly Void, Ueber den Tranm, 1912, vol. ii, pp. 791 et seq. He makes no reference to Freud, and his observations (from 1876 to 1897) were of earlier date than Freud’s writings. They had not appeared when I published The World of Dreams in 1911. I