One had a dark mustache; the two others had only little blond beards. I wondered about Mr. Springer's conduct. It seemed vulgar and degrading.

This Herr Springer represents his father. He reproaches his father with his own adventures. (Springen, - bespringen, - begatten.) The carriage is the Englishwoman with whom the father was intimate. But who are the three infantrymen? The dreamer's associations lead to the male genitalia, - the sexual trinity. The big one with the heavy mustache is the penis, the other two symbolize the testicles. His father had given too much thought to his genitalia.

That is the true theme of his surprise. But another infantilistic reminiscence o.ccurs to him. The Hungarian soldiers with their narrow trousers reminds him that he has once played with dolls. He examined anatomically each doll and was surprised to find no genitalia. Only smooth limbs. No opening anywhere. Next, he tore apart the dolls' bodies. He only found sawdust within.

He came to the conclusion that dolls and women had no "pipi." That surprised him very much. He saw a ballet dancer once, Abel, in a flesh-colored tights and he called out: "Abel has no 'pipi.' " For years afterwards he remembered and repeated that incident.

The greatest degradation to him was to have no "pipi." He indulged in revenge fancies in which he pictured himself as tearing off his father's genitals. Why? Because his father had threatened him with castration to cure him of handling his private parts as a child. He was also tremendously attached to the Englishwoman. Hence his boundless jealousy. He wanted to revenge himself by castrating his father.

The result of these experiences and fancies was a psychic impotence of which he was cured only through the analysis.

Wundern (wondering) leads here also to wound, - Wunde, - the result of castration, and to trauma, a theme which we have already dealt with previously.

Observe the similarity of Weihburg street and Weihrich (Dream No. 92). The affect of wondering, too, is spurious. (Symbolic equation of aifects.) It stands here for anger and means: "I am terribly worried over Mr. Springer's conduct."

The apparent lack of affectivity in a dream is always an interesting problem. Many dreams of most horrible content seem emotionally colorless. Why is that?

A gruesome dream of Freud's finds an easy interpretation which explains satisfactorily the absence of affectivity.

"The dream about the old bridge" says Freud, "which confronts me with the task of sectioning my own pelvis is characterized by the absence of the awe proper to the situation. That is a wish fulfillment in more than one sense. The sectioning represents the self analysis which I carry out with the publication of my book on the Interpretation of Dreams, - a task so unpleasant that I have delayed for over a year the printing of the finished manuscript. The wish is that I lift myself above this handicapping feeling, - that is why I experience no awe in the dream. In another sense, too, I wish to overcome my feeling of aversion, - to avoid Grauen (Literal sense: turning gray); my hair is turning gray and that also reminds me that I must delay no longer. We know that towards the end the thought breaks forth in the dream, that if I pursue a vacillating policy towards my aim I may have to leave the task to the new generation." (The Interpretation of Dreams, Translated by A. Brill, Macmil-lan Company, New York.)

The absence of affectivity in this dream of the founder of the new science of dream interpretation is also a wish fulfillment. It shows Freud's wish to overcome the "inhibiting emotions."

Thus even the emotionally colorless dreams corroborate the principle which I am propounding: There is no dream without powerful affects. The power of dreams to penetrate consciousness depends on the strength of the dream-building affects as well as on the depth of the slumber.11

11 P. Meunier and R. Masselon, Les reves et leur interpretation (Blend et Cie., Paris, 1910) arrive at the same conclusion: "La logique des reves est entierement affective."