her occupy our attention, I shall call the "Flying
Post."

Let us return to the parable. The mill of Section 11 is the womb. The
wanderer strives for the most intimate union with his mother; his
striving, to do better than his father culminates in his procreating
himself, the son, again and better.

He will quite fill up his mother--be the father in full. Of course the
phantasy does not progress without psychic obstructions. The anxious
passage over the narrow plank manifests it.

We have here the familiar obstructions to movement and in a form indeed
that recalls the dangerous path on the wall. The passage over the water is
also a death symbol. We have not only the anxiety about death caused by
the moral conflict, but we have also to remember that the passage into the
uterus is a passage to the beyond. The water is the Water of Death
(stygian waters) and of Life. In narrower sense it is also seminal fluid
and the amniotic liquor. It is overdetermined as indeed all symbols are.
The water bears the death color = black. In the Flying Post dream a black
road appears. The dreamer has conflicts like those of the wanderer.

The old miller who will give no information is the father. Of course he
will not let him have his mother, and he gives him no information as to
the mill work or the procreative activity. The wheels are, on the one
hand, the organs that grind out the child (producing the child like meal),
and on the other hand they are the ten commandments whose mundane
administration is the duty of the father, by means of strict education and
punishment. In passing over the plank, the wanderer places himself above
the ten commandments and above the privileges of the father. The wanderer
always extricates himself successfully from the difficulties. The anxiety
is soon done away with, and the fulfillment phase supervenes. It is only a
faint echo of the paternal commandments when the elders (immediately after
the episode, Section 11) hold out before him the letter from the faculty.
At bottom, in retaining their authority, they do indeed go against his own
wishes (also a typical artifice of the dream technique).

I have already discussed the letter episode sufficiently (as also Sections
12 and 13), so I need say no more about the incest wish there expressed.

The bridal pair were put (Section 14) into their crystal prison. We have
been looking for the reassembling of the dismembered; it takes place
before our eyes, the wh