in Sec. 13: "Now after ... our
bridegroom ... with his dearest bride ... came to the age of marriage [The
aim with which the censor performs his duties and effects the dream
displacement is, says Freud (Trdtg., p. 193), 'to prevent the development
of anxiety or other form of painful affect'.] they both copulated ... and
I wondered not a little that this maiden, that was supposed to be actually
the _mother_ of the bridegroom, was still so young...." Now when the
transfer has taken place, the thought of its being the mother is hazarded;
whereas formerly a mere suggestion of a sister had been offered. Section
14 explicitly mentions incest and even arranges the punishment of the
guilt. In this form the matter can, of course, be contemplated without
troubling the conscience or being further represented pictorially.

The sister, alternating in the narrative with the mother, is only a
preliminary to the latter. As we find that the OEdipus complex [Rather an
attenuation, which occurs frequently, not merely in dream psychology, but
also in modern mythology.] is revived in the parable, let us bring the
latter into still closer relation with the fairy tales and myths to which
we have compared it. The woman sought and battled for by the hero appears,
in its deeper psychological meaning, always to be the mother. The
significance of the incest motive has been discovered on the one hand by
the psychoanalysts (in particular Rank, who has worked over extensive
material), on the other by the investigators of myths. That many modern
mythologists lay most stress in this discovery upon the astral or
meteorological content and do not draw the psychological conclusions is
another matter that will be discussed later. But in passing it may be
noted that the correspondence in the discovered material (motives) is the
more remarkable as it resulted from working in the direction of quite
different purposes.

It is now time to examine the details of the parable in conformity with
the main theme just stated and come to a definite interpretation.
Henceforward we may keep to a chronological order.

The threshold symbolism in the beginning of the parable has already been
given, also the obstacles that are indicative of a psychic conflict. We
might rest satisfied with that, yet a more complete interpretation is
quite possible, in which particular images are shown to be overdetermined.
The way is narrow, overgrown with bushes, and leads to the Pratum
fe