tion and direction as becomes the erect phallus. In the place of the saber succeeds a sort of cow-hide. In the swiss dialect Hagenschwanz is the name for it (Hagen from Hägi = bull; Schwanz is a military and also a common designation of the phallus). The Hagenschwanz is made from the phallus of the bull and that is how it gets its name. On account of its elasticity it is used in place of a whip by cattle drivers and is, besides, a much feared means of punishment. It appears in this role in common parlance. When besides in the dream the saber is used to fight it has to do usually with a sexual conflict, also besides that the saber for explanation is transformed into a Hagenschwanz and must be carried in place of an erect phallus (the saber is stuck in the sheath!). So now the dreamer hastens in the direction of the burning woods.
The cry from the house is exactly like that which a short time before the dreamer heard in a zoological garden as he was walking by the animal cages with his bride. It came from a pair of pumas that were just about to copulate.
Only through these symbolisms was it possible to concentrate the whole dream, which was cut into so many trains of thought, into one picture. The analysis shows us repeatedly how many symbol constructing elements exist in the dream. The strong erotic of the dream is, however, only clear to the initiated. We see here horse, bull, saber, cow-hide, etc., namely animals and objects, the latter brought into relation by derivation or similarity with the symbolic representation employed in the indication of symbols of man as a sexual being.
We find similar material, for example, in a work of Jung.[1]
Hysteria has innumerable symbolic representations that through special mechanisms and memories are always again being awakened and still remain hidden to consciousness. Hysterical attacks are often in their essential parts abridged, symbolic representations, also the hysterical physical symptoms and conduct.
A short hysteria analysis will follow in a few pages.[2]
- ↑ "Diagnostische Assoziationsstudien," VIII Beitrag, Journal f. Psychologie und Neurologie, Bd. VIII, 1906, Leipzig, J. A. Barth.
- ↑ In earlier works I have given examples of such symbolism. Compare "Diagnostische Assoziationsstudien," VII Beitrag, and Psychiatrisch-neurologische Wochenschrift, 1905, No. 46.
