ite and red parts, bones and blood, are indeed
bridegroom and bride. The prison is the skin or the receptacle in which,
as in myths, the revivification takes place. Not in the sense of the
revivification of the annihilated father, but a recreation (improvement)
that the son accomplishes, although the creative force as such remains the
same. The son "marries and mills" (vermaehlt und vermehlt) with his mother,
for the crystal container is again the same as the mill; the uterus. Even
the amniotic fluid and the nutritive liquid for the foetus are present, and
the wanderer remakes himself into a splendid king. He can really do it
better than his father. The dream carries the wish fulfillment to the
uttermost limits.

Let us examine the process somewhat more in detail. The wanderer, by
virtue of a dissociation, has a twofold existence, once as a youth in the
inside of the glass sphere, and once outside in his former guise. Outside
and inside he is united with his mother as husband and as developing
child. He there embraces his "sister" (image of his mother renewed with
him as it were) as Osiris does his sister Isis. And in addition to this
the infantile sexual components of exhibitionism find satisfaction, for
whose gratification the covering of the procreation mystery is made of
glass. The sexual influence of the wanderer on the kettle (uterus) is
symbolically indicated by the fire task allotted to him. The fire is one
of the most frequent love symbols in dreams. Language also is wont to
speak of the fire of love, of the consuming flames of passion, of ardent
desires, etc. Customs, in particular marriage customs, show a similar
symbolism. That the wanderer is charged with a duty, and explicitly
commanded to do what he is willing to do without orders, is again the
already mentioned cunning device of the dream technique to bring together
the incompatible. It seems almost humorous when the prison is locked with
the seal of the right honorable faculty; I recall to you the expression
"sealing" (petschieren); the sealing is an applying of the father's penis.
In the place of father we find, of course, the officiating wanderer. The
sealing means, however, the shutting up of the seed of life that is placed
in the mother. It is also said that the pair, after the confinement in the
prison, can be given no more nourishment; and that the food with which
they are provided comes exclusively from the water of the mill. That
refers to the in