I am worried because my household 4 does not run smoothly. I muster courage, and disregarding the state of my illness, I wrap a towel around my head and with duster in hand I brush and clean out every corner. The effort exhausts me and I sigh over my helplessness for in spite of my labor and care the work does not get done. Everywhere I still see the old disorder. My mother appears and she scolds me for trying always to do so much. I beg her to help me, this eternal not-gettvng-through hangs over me like a curse.

The mother who reproaches her stands for womb (Mutter: mother and Gebarmutter: womb). In this dream, too, she cannot get through. That is the curse of her life. The husband is through sooner. He is, in fact, "all through." She sighs over her husband's impotence der bei der Arbeit kaum den Kopf hineinsteckt. What is the use of her keeping herself so clean, would it not be better if she were less averse to moral impurity, - perhaps the frustrated excitations and her phantasies are exhausting her and make her ill? In the next dream, which I reproduce as complementary, she reverts back to her premarital state. She is again a young woman in a position to choose another - potent - husband:

4 Symbol for the phallus. Popular vulgarism: Lass dir deine Wirtschaft ausbiirsten.