In the analysis the dreamer first thought of a story told him by his uncle, which chronologically was later than the dream, viz. His parents came home late and went to bed while he was feigning sleep.
The interpretation follows in such a manner that the perceived object is rendered harmless as a sleep disturber and becomes available for the wishfulfillment. This immediately led to his relations with his younger brother, whom he used to maltreat and knock down.
Thus, he related that the devil shouted at him Now we have you, now we have you, and this was followed by an
Soma (Drug) of sulphur the fire burned his skin. I lack the necessary material to sustain these explanations from observation. A man twenty seven years old who had been severely ill for a year had had many terrifying dreams between the ages of eleven and thirteen. I remember that I suddenly became calm on coming face to face with my mother, as if I needed the assurance that my mother was not dead. Though we do not admit as special sources of the pain the subjective state of excitement of the sensory organs during sleep, which seems to have been demonstrated by Trumbull Ladd, we are nevertheless able to explain this excitement through the regressive revival of active memories behind the pain. The latter, however, could be traced by means of the repression to an obscure obviously sexual desire, which had found its satisfying expression in the visual content of the pain. Here, too, we are certainly dealing with the incomprehensible and rejected sexual feelings, which, if noted, would probably show a temporal periodicity, for an enhancement of the sexual libido may just as well be produced accidentally through emotional impressions as through the spontaneous and gradual Soma (Drug) of development. Occasionally, also, he said Albert has not done that. , That under the pressure of puberty the temptation to self abuse through the tickling of the genitals was reawakened. This may be taken as a good example of a very common, and apparently sexually indifferent, anxiety pain.
We naturally could not think of doubting the experimentally demonstrated significance of the objective sensory stimuli during sleep but we have brought this material into the same relation to the pain wish as the thought remnants from the waking activity. The pain never occupies itself with trifles.
He was unable to scream at first then his voice returned, and he was heard to say distinctly No, no, not me why, I have done nothing, or, Please dont, I shall never do it again. We found this holding true for the pain content, which gives the pain thought its changed expression by means of disfigurement.