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Rh one has children it becomes more difficult to move about and one cannot go everywhere. (Both are very fond of travelling and formerly travelled much.) The idea of relinquishing his trip to America was especially unpleasant to him, as he carried on commercial transactions in that country and always hoped that perhaps by a personal visit to the country he would benefit commercially. On this hope he built many vague plans for the future, rather lofty and flattering to his ambition.

Let us briefly summarize that which has been so far said. Mountain can be interpreted as height. To ascend a mountain = to get to the top. Work = labor. The underlying sense of this may be "By labor one gets to the top." The height in the dream is especially plastically produced by the "dizzy heights" of the sky scrapers which designated America, where my friend's expectations lie. The picture of the horse which is evidently associated with the idea of labor seems to be a symbolic expression for "hard labor," for the work on a sky scraper upon which the horse was hoisted is very difficult, as is also the work which is accomplished by horses lowered into mines. In colloquial language we have such expressions as "work like a horse" and "harnessed like a horse."

By disclosing these associations we gain a certain insight into the sense of the first part of the dream. We have found the way which apparently leads us to very intimate hopes and expectations in the dreamer. Let us then assume that the sense of this part of the dream signifies, "By labor one gets to the top." The dream pictures appertaining to it can easily be taken as symbolic expressions for this thought.

The first sentences of the dream read: "I saw how horses were hoisted by means of thick cables to an indefinite height. One of them, a powerful brown horse which was tied up by a belt and dispatched upward like a package, especially took my fancy." This seems to contradict the analysis which is that by labor one gets to the top. To be sure one can also be hoisted up. In this connection X. recalls how he often looked with disgust upon those tourists who had themselves hoisted up to the high summits by the "flour sack" method. He never needed anybody's help. The various horses in the dream are therefore others who were unable to get to the top by their own effort. The expression