Z., whom I consider responsible for my misfortune, is really a close acquaintance of mine. I meet him and he treats me in a very friendly and obliging manner. I am certain that Z. is bound to me by certain moral obligations. I try to give him to understand in an indirect way that since we are such close acquaintances and m view of the fact that he is under obligation to me, his conduct ought to be more pleasing. I did not disclose that he had behaved very hinter-listig - tricky - towards me. But he showed me further reaction whereas I spoke to him as I would to a person holding a great social position (Cabinet officer, or something). On account of his high social position I have avoided in my conversation with him all references to his duty and my Durchfall - examination failure. The dream was strongly emotional.

7 Here we note the biologic root of the fourth symbolic equation: "Any affect may replace any other affect in the dream." Fear, anger, fury and doubt may substitute and vicariously replace one another. The agoraphobiacs lose their fear of open places while angry.

At once we recognize that this person of high social standing is none but the father with whom his relations are very cordial. He is very courteous in his attitude towards his father but at the same time regards him as the original cause of his neurotic trouble. The father is obviously anal erotic and has preoccupied himself to a suspicious extent with his son's anal functions.

In the dream he finds that the examiner to whom he ascribes his misfortune (misfortune at trial with woman, for he is impotent with woman and a mas-turbator, i.e., misfortune with reference to the true test) is really a close acquaintance. An acquaintance who has once bribed him with sweets and to whom he owes all sorts of early erotic pleasures. "He treats me zuvorkommender Weise"; that is literally true. He has a vague notion that it is his father's moral duty to take care of him, for is not the father responsible for his misfortune? The dream discloses the wish to tell his father so, - at least in some indirect way. He expects a kulanteres behavior, - ein kulanteres Benehmen. The associations are: cul, - popo, with which is also associated the term "hinterlistig" (cunning) in the sense of some one lusting (lusternd) for the posterior parts. The high social position refers to the father, while Durchfall (failure, but literally, a "falling or passing through") links anal functions to the result of the examination. The situation: "treating very gently some one who is actually being hated" breaks forth very plainly and it contains the roots of the neurosis; the latter is centered chiefly on urolagnia and coprolagnia.

Mr. Gino, a compulsion neurotic who dreads unfaithfulness, treason and dirt, and who is burdened with a compensatory washing mania, dreams: