Freud : his dream and sex theories / by Joseph Jastrow.

  • Joseph Jastrow
Date:
1948,
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    explains to his patients that their dreams are wish ful¬ fillments linked to repressions. When they protest that they are not, he obtains further associations which he analyzes into an interpretation to prove his point. Still another dream: Mrs. A. dreams that she wishes to give a supper-party but has nothing on hand but smoked salmon; she cannot market for other provisions as it is Sunday and the shops are closed. She tries to telephone to a caterer, but the telephone is out of order; so the supper must be given up. Interpretation: Her husband, Mr. A. had told her the day before that he was growing too stout, that he had decided to exercise and diet, and avoid sup¬ pers. (Mrs. A. adds that she is fond of her husband and fond also of teasing him.) Though she would en¬ joy a caviar sandwich in the middle of the morning, she grudged the expense, and had asked her husband not to send her any caviar, although, as a wholesale provisioner, he was in a position to indulge her. But she preferred the flirtatious game of teasing and re¬ fusing him, an innocent but intelligible foible. Deeper interpretation: This explanation seems to Freud superficial; the motives revealed are not con¬ vincing. So he probes more deeply. Mrs. A. reports that the day before she had visited a friend, Mrs. B. of whom she is jealous because her own husband is constantly praising Mrs. B. Mrs. B. is slender, and remarked that she would like to gain weight. She asked Mrs. A. when she would invite her again to one of her abundant suppers. “Now,” says Freud, “the meaning of the dream is clear.” As Mrs. A.’s husband “likes well-rounded figures,” it is as though the dreamer had said to Mrs. B. in friendly (1)
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