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142 von Muralt was also up there—I betrothed myself to him in my dream—these are Russians, that was a battle attack—on the horses were men like Mr. Sch. of U. with long lances—like a battle attack.

The first associations refer again to the grandiose ideas. The peculiar collection of sound associations like catheter, chartreuse, etc., leads over to a carreau of white horses, which although they had no half moon shaped mustaches over their tails, had however "half moons" under the skin "like little locks." We probably deal here with a similar but a more concealed sexual symbol. The horses are hungry; the association nearest to it is to eat. "Hunger" indicates a desire, perhaps a sexual desire (this recalls the sexual symbol "hungry dog" in Beitrag, VIII, Diagnost. Assoz.-Stud.). Unlike the former analysis the association does not touch the direct symbolic husband "Emperor Francis," but a similar distinguished synonym "Emperor von Muralt." The associations again go from the horse to the husband and this time the sexual reference to the man is obvious, inasmuch as patient asserts that she has betrothed herself to "Emperor von Muralt." The horses, too, now receive a characteristic attribute; they are mounted by men with "long lances"—like a battle attack. Whoever has analyzed dreams knows that whenever women dream of manly figures who come in the night into their rooms armed with daggers, swords, lances and revolvers, it is without exception a sexual symbol, in which the pricking or wounding weapons symbolically represent the penis. This dream symbolism can be encountered repeatedly in normal persons and in the diseased. I shall cite a case that I recently saw at the polyclinic. It is the case of a young girl who out of submission to her parents discontinued her love affair. She then suffered from depression with sporadic sexual excitements. Nightly she had stereotyped anxious dreams in which "someone" always came into the room with a long spear and struck her in the breast. In a similar case the patient repeatedly dreamed that she walked the street at night and that someone waylaid and shot her in the leg with a revolver. In dementia præcox we often find sensory hallucinations of knives in the genitals. The sexual significance of the horses in both this and the preceding analysis, as well as the meaning of "battle attack," ought to be quite obvious after