The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Chapter 5 Page 27

naturally was in love. Her mother took her away from this place, and the physician came to the railroad station and handed her a bouquet of flowers on leaving; she felt uncomfortable because her mother witnessed this homage. Here the mother, therefore, appears as a disturber of her love affairs, which is the r�le actually played by this strict woman during her daughter's girlhood.

The next thought referred to the sentence: “She then looks to see whether the parts can be seen behind.” In the dream fa�ade one would naturally be compelled to think of the parts of the little daughter run over and ground up. The thought, however, turns in quite a different direction. She recalls that she once saw her father in the bath-room naked from behind; she then begins to talk about the sex differentiation, and asserts that