terwards I looked
at it closer and still noticed the traces of a dirty gray liquid.
Nevertheless, I went on without stopping, and quickened my steps. At the
end of the alley I had to go through the house that was connected by the
alley with the other. Here I found an establishment (inn?) that I passed.
In this establishment were people (porters, servants, etc.) engaged in
moving heavy pieces of furniture, etc., as if these were being moved out
or rearranged. I had to be careful and force my way through. Finally I
came to the open on a street and looked for an electric. Then I saw on a
path that went off at an angle, a man whom I took for an innkeeper who was
occupied in measuring or fastening a hedge or a trellis. I did not know
exactly what he was doing. He was counting or muttering and was so drunk
that he staggered."

Stekel: "In this dream are united birth and effects of the forbidden or
unpermissible. The dreamer goes back over the path--evidently as an adult.
The experiences represent an accusation against the mother. This
accusation was not without reason. Mr. F. Z. S. had a joyless childhood.
His mother was a heavy drinker. He witnessed her coitus with strangers.
(Packing up = coitus.) The packers and porters are the strange men who
visited his inn (his mother was also his nurse) in order to store heavy
objects, etc. Finally he was obstructed in his birth, for a man is
occupied in measuring. The father was a surveyor (the innkeeper). In the
dream, furthermore, he was measuring a trellis-fence. Both trellis and
hedge are typical dream symbols of obstacles to copulation."

Comparing Sections 10 and 11 of the parable carefully with the contents of
this dream, we find astonishing correspondences. Notice the details, e.g.,
the rosebushes, the sun, the rain, the hedge. On the "well builded house"
of Section 10, I shall only remark that Scherner has noticed in this
connection that the human body represents a building. "Well built house"
signifies "beautiful body."

If we remember that the wanderer reverses the way of birth, we shall not
be surprised that he finds a smaller garden in the larger. That is
probably the uterus. The wanderer attains the most intimate union with his
ideal, the mother, in imagining himself in her body. This phantasy is
continued still less ambiguously,--but I do not wish to anticipate. Be it
only said: He possesses his mother as a spouse and as a child; it is as if
in the desire to do everyt