Suddenly I felt pain in my body and vomited a stream of blood. I cried: I shall die!"

For many years he was addicted to masturbation until his father warned him: "If you do not give up the habit, you will die." Once he masturbated so inveterately that he caused a profuse hemorrhage from the urethra. During recent years he was abstinent, but he developed serious neurotic anxiety traits; he has a most uncomfortable feeling of pressure and of pain in his body and the sensation that something sticks inside of him and can neither get farther in nor out.

The thing that sticks and cannot get either farther in or out is his penis. Now he is fighting with a resolution to have sexual intercourse. "I shall die": this expression in the dream means, - my abstinence drags me down, I must begin to live.

6 The dream portrays the phantasy - far from an infrequent one - that she bore and had given birth to her brother. The effect (shuddering) is the expression of her general feeling-attitude (yearning) rather than of horror of death.

This resolution he actually adopted shortly after the dream. With the aid of the second symbolic equation the dream is easily interpreted: I am with a woman. Suddenly I experience enormous gratification. I shout: Es lebe das Leben. ( Blood for sperma; dying for living.)

His wish to seek regular sexual intercourse was expressed in a short dream which I reproduce without analyzing the details as it is fairly clear from what we know already: