The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Chapter 4 Page 23

disguise her wish she had obviously selected a situation in which wishes of that sort are commonly suppressed — a situation which is so filled with sorrow that love is not thought of.

And yet, it is very easily probable that even in the actual situation at the bier of the second, more dearly loved boy, which the dream copied faithfully, she had not been able to suppress her feelings of affection for the visitor whom she had missed for so long a time.

A different explanation was found in the case of a similar dream of another female patient, who was distinguished in her earlier years by her quick wit and her cheerful demeanors and who still showed these qualities at least in the notion, which occurred to her in the course of treatment. In connection with a longer dream, it seemed to