d him over the coals, an allegorical metaphor,
taken possibly from the ordeal by fire. In these difficulties the
attaining of the end meets us in the first instance in a series of
analogous events, where the wanderer sees himself hindered in his
activities in a more or less painful, and often even a dangerous manner.
After a phase marked by anxiety the adventure turns out uniformly well and
some progress is made after the obstruction at the beginning. As a first
intimation of the coming experiences we may take up the obstacles in the
path in the first section of the parable, which are successfully removed,
inasmuch as the wanderer soon after reaches the lovely region (Sec. 3).

The psychology of dreams has shown that obstacles in the dream correspond
to conflicts of will on the part of the dreamer, which is exactly as in
the morbid restraint of neurotics. Anxiety develops when a suppressed
impulse wishes to gratify itself, to which impulse another will, something
determined by our culture, is opposed prohibitively. Obstructed
satisfaction creates anxiety instead of pleasure. Anxiety may then be
called also a libido with a negative sign. Only when the impulse in
question knows how to break through without the painful conflict, can it
attain pleasure--which is the psychic (not indeed the biologic) tendency of
every impulse emanating from the depths of the soul. The degrees of the
pleasure that thus exists in the soul may be very different, even
vanishingly small, a state of affairs occurring if the wish fulfilling
experience has through overgrowth of symbolism lost almost all of its
original form. If we follow the appearances of the obstruction motive in
the parable, and find the regular happy ending already mentioned, then we
can maintain it as a characteristic of the phantasy product in question,
that not only in its parts but also in the movement of the entire action,
it shows a tendency from anxiety towards untroubled fulfillment of wishes.

As for the examination episode, to which we have now advanced in our
progressive study of the narrative, we can now take up a frequently
occurring dream type; the Examination Dream. Almost every one who has to
pass severe examinations, experiences even at subsequent times when the
high school or university examinations are far in the past, distressing
dreams filled with the anxiety that precedes an examination. Freud
(Trdtg., p. 196 ff.) clearly says that this kind of dream is espe