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the allusion to the resurrection presents a delightful meaning as the cure of her husband’s impotency. Then the whole problem would be solved. There is no need for me to point out in so many words the numerous wish-fulfilments contained in this material; they are obvious to the reader.

The important combination of the symbol “Luke 137” must be conceived as cryptomnesia, since the dreamer is quite unversed in the Bible. Both Flournoy[1] and myself[2] have already drawn attention to the important effects of this phenomenon. So far as one can be humanly certain the question of any manipulation of the material with intent to deceive does not come into consideration in this case. Those well posted in psychoanalysis will be able to allay any such suspicion simply from the disposition and setting of the material as a whole.

  1. Flournoy, “Des Indes à la Planète Mars.” Idem: “Nouvelles observations sur un cas de somnambulisme,” Arch. de Pyschol., vol. I.
  2. See chapter I, p. 86.