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.
When I am near her she changes into a man who is lying on a sofa half undressed. He says: "Es wird dich doch nicht genieren" oder "es geniert Sie doch nicht": "it won't discommode you," or "it surely makes no difference to you (that I am really a man").
The man seemed elderly, he wore side whiskers which were gray. He reminded me of a good friend of papa's.
The prostitute changes into a friend of his father's and then into his father whom he thus surprises in a bawdy house. The changing of the girl into the father shows the mechanism of transformation. He plays the role of the father when he goes to women. He seeks the father when he identifies himself with the mother. His vacillation between man and woman is exhibited in the dream through the transformation. The bird which changed into a cat, too, illustrated the same thing.
We have analyzed, thus far, fifty dreams; rather lightly and superficially. Practical considerations make it necessary that I should limit myself only to the most significant and most pertinent details. But in every dream where we took the trouble to investigate this point, we came upon the problem of bisexuality.
I now conclude: All dreams are bisexually determined. Where the bisexual character is not visible it belongs to the latent dream thought. On this point my experience coincides with the view of Alfred Adler5 who goes farther and who sees in every dream the trend of the female towards the male directive tendency, - the so-called "male protest." We shall speak of that later. Now I propose to give a few examples illustrating how psychic hermaphroditism expresses itself in the dream.
5 Der psychische Hermaphroditismus, Fortschritte der Medi-zin, 1910.
We take first an old example. Dream nine of Mr. Beta:
I chip off a piece.
We have interpreted that metaphor and found that the dreamer had "taken a chip" out of his divinity. But further analysis shows that he chipped off the middle part, i.e., the genitals. It means that he transforms his god into his goddess. Or else he emasculates his god. We shall see later how powerfully Mr. Beta's neurosis is influenced by active and passive phantasies of castration. The bisexual character of this dream is implied in this emasculation.
The bisexuality of the neurotic, a discovery in connection with which Fliess, Freud, Sadger, Wein-inger and Swoboda have rendered great services expresses itself in the dreams as plainly as in the "hysterical symptoms'* or in the hysterical character. (Adler.)
But how masked bisexuality asserts itself in the dream, how dimly, how cryptically! Let us examine a few examples.
Miss Gamma had a couple of dreams in succession:
Blouse or nightgown (Schlafrock) signifies here the restless question: Man or woman? "Do I feel to-day like a man or like a woman?" Her second dream denies her female tendencies. She is a male, therefore she refuses the proffered penis (cigarette). The statement: "I did not understand what was the matter with me" expresses her vacillation between male and female. These two dreams show clearly a male protest, a trend in the direction of maleness.
The next, - a dream of a thirty-year-old man is clearer:
 
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