ensual enjoyment without love.

In paragraph 10 we again meet the already mentioned symbolism of the
walled garden. The wanderer is the only one that can secure admission to
the maiden. After a fear of impotence (anxiety about disgrace) he goes
resolutely to the door and opens it with his Diederich, which sticks into
a narrow, hardly visible opening (deflowering). He "knows the situation of
the place," although he has never been there before. I mean that once,
before he was himself, he was there in the body of his mother. What
follows suggests a birth fantasy as these occur in dreams of being born.
The wanderer now actually takes part in being born in reverse direction. I
append several dreams about being born.

"I find myself on a very narrow stairway, leading down in turns; a winding
stairway. I turn and push through laboriously. Finally I find a little
door that leads me into the open, on a green meadow, where I rest in soft
luxuriant bushes. The warm sunshine was very pleasant."

F. S. dreams: "In the morning I went to work with my brother (as we went
the same road) in the Customs House Street. Before the customs house I saw
the head postillion standing. From it the way led to a street between two
wooden walls; the way appeared very long and seemed to get narrower toward
the end and indeed so close that I was afraid that we would not get
through. I went out first, my brother behind me; I was glad when I got out
of the passage and woke with a beating heart." Addenda. "The way was very
dark, more like a mine. We couldn't see, except in the distance the end,
like a light in a mine shaft. I closed my eyes." Stekel notes on the
dreams of F. S.: "The dream is a typical birth dream. The head postillion
is the father. The dreamer wants to reverse the birth relations of his
brother who is ten years older than he. 'I went out first, my brother
after me.' "

Another beautiful example in Stekel: "Inter faeces et urinas nascimur."
[We are born between faeces and urine] says St. Augustine. Mr. F. Z. S.
contributes an account of his birth which strongly reminds us of the
sewer-theory.

"I went into the office and had to pass a long, narrow, uneven alley. The
alley was like a long court between two houses and I had the indefinite
feeling that there was no thoroughfare. Yet I hurried through. Suddenly a
window over me opened and some one, I believe a female, spilled the wet
contents of a vessel on me. My hat was quite wet and af