This section is from the book "Sex And Dreams - The Language Of Dreams", by William Stekel. Also available from Amazon: Sex and Dreams: The Language of Dreams.
I am scared when I reflect on what I have really done. I ran into a jewelry store where I found my sister selling something to the gold worker (or was she there to purchase something herself?). I feared I would be arrested and at the same time I wished it would happen so that I might be able to state, that I do not know why I did it.
He himself is the gold worker who wishes to tell me the story of his trauma. Various intimacies had taken place between himself and his sister. He recalls having been told by his sister that during their childhood he had urinated into her mouth. (Urine, - excreta, - gold: Second symbolic equation.) Recollections of passionate kisses and hugging also come to mind. The parents were imprudent enough to allow the children to sleep together for years. He remembers that he told his sister lewd things. There is also some history of fellatio. A girl told him about this when he was ten years of age. He was terribly shocked and wondered whether he ought to tell his mother. Finally he did so and felt very much relieved after that. He suffered of a pronounced polyuria at the time. He had to run several times hourly to the bathroom. . . .
4 German, Schiirze (apron), - like the "Americanese" "skirt," - is a vulgarism for woman.
The dream records that he has robbed his sister of the precious jewel, innocence. His conscience troubles him on that account as well as because of his incestuous thoughts. (For more detailed analysis cp. Dreams Nos. 34, 102, 314, 315, 318.)
The transposition of my servant girl into his sister shows that back of all his female ideals stands the ideal of his youth, - his sister. The dream airs the riddle of the choice of an objective. My servant girl (who wears a white apron) attracts him because she reminds him of his sister.
I close this account of transformations with a dream by Epsilon, an artist. It is a typical bisexual dream.
 
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