the manure on
which our cultivated fruits thrive. The dark titanic impulses are the raw
material from which in every man, the work of civilization forms an
ethical character. Where there is a strong light there are deep shadows.
Should we be so insincere as to deny, because of supposed danger, the
shadows in our inmost selves? Do we not diminish the light by so doing?
Morality, in whose name we are so scrupulous, demands above everything
else, truth and sincerity. But the beginning of all truth is that we do
not impose upon ourselves. "Know thyself" is written over the entrance of
the Pythian sanctuary. And it is this inspiring summons of the radiant god
of Delphi that psychoanalysis seeks to meet.

After this introductory notice, it will be possible properly to understand
the following instructive example, which contains exquisite sexual
symbolism.

Dream of Mr. T. "I dreamed I was riding on the railroad. Near me sat a
delicate, effeminate young man or boy; his presence caused erotic feelings
in me to a certain extent. (It appeared as if I put my arm about him.) The
train came to a standstill; we had arrived at a station and got out. I
went with the boy into a valley through which ran a small brook, on whose
bank were strawberries. We picked a great many. After I had gathered a
large number I returned to the railway and awoke."

Supplementary communication. "I think I remember that an uncomfortable
feeling came over me in the boy's company. The valley branched off to the
left from the railway."

From a discussion of the dream it next appeared that T., who, as far as I
knew, entertained a pronounced aversion to homosexuality, had read a short
time before a detailed account of a notorious trial then going on in
Germany, that was concerned with real homosexual actions. [In
consciousness, of course. In the suppressed depths of unconsciousness the
infantile homosexual component also will surely be found.] An incident
from it, probably supported by some unconscious impulse, crowded its way
into the dream as an erotic wish, hence the affectionate scene in the
railway train. So far the matter would be intelligible even if in an
erotic day dream the image of a boy, considering the existing sexual
tendency of T., had been resolutely rejected by him. How are the other
processes in the dream related to it? Do they not at first sight appear
unconnected or meaningless?

And yet in them are manifested the fulfillment of the wis