The Emperor is also present. Thousands of people below, awaiting the Emperor's departure. It is evening and the Assembly House square is feerically illumined for the occasion. Three figures stand watch in front of the main entrance. In the middle stands a gigantic figure dressed as the iron man, a blinding white light emanating from him. At the right and at the left each a figure similarly clad in golden attire. These two are very quiet, almost motionless, but the iron man is nervous, he is impatient for the moment to arrive when he should cry out to the assembled populace, the Emperor is coming! - The people have been waiting for hours. I and a few others, - were lucky enough to be admitted within. We shall see the Emperor at close range, - the thought causes my heart to beat fast. I become very nervous and I run breathlessly up and down the steps. I am a prey of undescribable excitement; suddenly I hear a tremendous noise rising outside, like the roar of an oceantide breaking against the wonderful building and echoing within. Scared, I ask the servant what happened. He says: "The three at the door got tired waiting and left their post swearing at the Assembly House, the people became more impatient than ever at that, hence their outcries." At that moment the hall doors are thrown open, an ocean of light assaults my eyes. I see the burgomaster (mayor) with the great golden chain and the red colored order ribbons hurrying down the steps; he passes very close to me, so that I can almost feel his breath; he draws me along, I run after him, the great door of the hall springs ajar, as if opened by magic hands. The burgomaster calls excitedly: "Where is the Emperor?" He is told the Emperor had left the Assembly House through a side door and was being carried along the Burg theater (Municipal Theater Building). I see very clearly the carriage disappearing in the midst of the crowd. But no sound is now heard . . . then I awake.

11 have known for a long time that the post-narcotic neuroses and psychoses are traceable back to such unconscious phantasies involving violence. Cf. similar example in my Nervosa Angstzuitdnde, p. 96.

The dream of a poet, full of dramatic incidents, of plastic imageries, and apparently dealing with political conditions. It was dreamed by a young man who expects to marry a poor girl. His parents are against it. His father (the Emperor) is now helpless and dependent upon him for support. On the evening before the dream he kept reflecting for a long time how he might extricate himself from the unpleasant situation. The dream has shown him a solution. In the girl's house wo er sich gut beraten wahnt (Rathaus) where he considers himself well counseled, a great reception is being held. The analysis brings up by association a dance, a marriage ceremony. He is getting married (Emp-fangniss, reception). But the father (Emperor) must first leave (abfahren, sterben, die) then the stumblingblock will be out of the way. A death wish against the father. The tremendous mass of people, the contrary circumstances. Three guardians are watching before at the Assembly House. The iron man is again the father (iiberlebensgrosse, unnaturally big) who in spite of his vigor earns nothing. Hence the vigor. The blinding white light which emanates from him is a scornful reference to his bald pate and his limited, homely, philistine intellect. The quiet figure in golden accouterments is his precious, dear mother (also doubled) who does not reproach him; the iron man (iron constitution) is nervous and always plays the role of the house tyrant: the Emperor is coming! This remarkable dream structure carries out further the feelings in the breast of the young man; the father must give the deciding word, the circumstances speak loudly their unfavorable tone. The father has lost his position as employee (the watchmen at the gate abandon their post), that is why the circumstances have become unbearable. Now comes the wish fulfillment in glorious form. An ocean of light blinds his eyes. The burgomaster (mayor) is his sweetheart, the mistress of his heart, the golden chain, the marriage tie, and the red order insignia - these, analysis finds to stand for blood. How does he describe the power of attraction which the btloved exercises over him? "I almost feel his (her) breath, he (she) drags me along, I follow him (her), all obstacles are overcome, the gate door of the great house springs ajar as if opened by magic hands." The Emperor is carried across the Municipal Theater. On that square he saw a few days ago a great funeral procession. The Municipal Theater as symbol for the parental home is now conquered region. Emperor and Burg theater, both are overcome.

He was tremendously excited in the dream. But in ordinary life Emperor and Burgomaster do not affect him. Only because here they are symbols, because the Emperor represents his greatest obstacle and the burgomaster symbolizes his most cherished ideal, his beloved, are these dream thoughts linked to such tremendous affects. Very interesting is the observation: The burgomaster calls out excitedly: where is the Emperor? That is the very climax of the little drama which is portrayed before us, the great scene between the father and the beloved. Naturally she is the one who comes out victorious.

But any one who thinks this analysis is at all exhaustive is badly mistaken. The dream shows us the problem of his love affair. He has carried out an identification of his mother with the beloved. The Assembly House stands for the mother as well as for the bride; it signifies the beloved mother, or the beloved, who shall be the mother of his children. The mother receives the father (Emperor) - naturally evening. The mass of people signify the rebellious wishes, the numberless evil thoughts, and for that reason, naturally, by way of contrast, a secret. The three figures on guard, symbolize, like most trinities, the penis and pair of testicles. Here the penis is the "iron man" with the lance; the testicles (egg-yellow) are characterized by golden garments.2 One on the right, the other, on the left. It is an old dream symbolism that the father means also the generating one, that is, the penis. The testicles are naturally immovable, quiet, only the penis is impatient for the "arrival."

I and a few others - we are lucky to be allowed to get in.3 Naturally, he was within the maternal body. The past becomes the present. (This theme, - maternal body phantasies - will preoccupy us at different times in the course of our present study.)

2 The "golden balls" as testicles: Anthropophyteia, vol. II., p. 142.

The wishes become progressively more pressing. Another's three - become his trinity.4 The Emperor leaves through a side door (that is, he dies, his carriage disappears in the crowd). The situation resembles more closely the act of coitus (up and down the steps) - and the dreamer wakes up.

The birth phantasy naturally commingles with the defloration phantasy. He does not want to wait so long. The iron man is impatient.

Another picture:

The Dream of the Unbridled Life: