21 definitions
Adultery (n.) foretold by a bad throw: Fontane's Melanie tosses the ball to her husband, it flies wide, and Rubehn catches it.
Ambiguity (n.) is a switch-point for the dream: one meaning of a word sits in the dream-thoughts while the other walks into the manifest dream.
Charity (n.) was overcome by reluctance when Galsworthy's hero wrote “I enclose a cheque”, chased a moth, and posted the letter without it.
A Dream (n.) is the guardian of sleep: it gave the man with a cold the illusion of staying in bed by picturing a cutting that 'won't go on to the page'.
Dream distortion (n.) at its most successful spreads a protective covering so complete that nothing obnoxious breaks the surface, and the dreamer wakes 'rejoiced and strengthened'.
Envy (n.) put the elegant gentleman in house slippers: the analyst who made the slip had just bought brown shoes no longer strikingly beautiful.
Flirtation (n.) made him forget the English word for “gold” — identical to the German — so that he had to touch the gold ring on the English lady's hand.
A Key (n.) gave me away: I regularly took out my flat key at the office door — and only once the office key at home, the evening I was tired and a guest was waiting.
A Leader (n.) like Moses is rewarded by the people he sought to free with rebellion, hatred and ingratitude.
A Monster (n.) seen in a dream under the magnifying glass of analysis turns out, in consciousness, to be a tiny infusorian.