(1967). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 36:83-84 Freud in the Introductory Lectures originally described the umbrella as a symbol of the male genital. I have learned from a male patient in analysis that the umbrella in dreams also has an earlier preoedipal significance. The patient sought analysis because of bisexuality. In association to an umbrella seen in a dream, he recalled that the day before he had had an erection that distended his trousers. His associations showed that the shaft of the umbrella symbolized his erect phallus and the cloth of the opened umbrella represented the cloth of his trousers stretched by it. We may conclude that the day residue for umbrella symbols may often, or always, be an erection, experienced or observed by the dreamer, covered by clothing. The patient also recalled observing an attractive young woman's breasts distending the cloth of her dress. The umbrella in his dream was formed from the sight of the cloth-covered breasts of the woman combined with the kinesthetic and proprioceptiv [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
