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 CHAPTER VI

A series of examples of sexual symbolism should be made of special mention in which transposition upward is utilized; Freud has shown how among the dream symbols that represent the female genitals, another bodily organ, the mouth, is often employed, and what happens to it in the dream signifies what happens to the genitals. That just this displacement to the mouth is frequently utilized by the dream has its foundation in different determining factors. The mouth, because of its analogy, is a very obvious symbol in the same body; the relation to one's own person may be given very simple expression, etc. The mouth, moreover, is one of the Freudian erogenous zones.

Jung has given illuminating examples of this from the dream of an hysteric and from a patient with dementia præcox.

The following example from the case history of an hysteric shows in an unequivocal way this "upward transposition," wherein the serpent symbol appears with the same significance as in "Oda and the Serpent."

A twenty-two year old woman suffered from hysteria of sexual genesis with a wonderfully clear, transparent structure. Special circumstances assisted the upward transposition of the Rh