... in a dream was a male or "phallic symbol", and anything hollow was a female symbol. Dreams had an additional interest for him in that they had "access" to the forgotten material of childhood-In his own self-analysis Freud was discovering further elements of the Oedipus complex, in his case, a deep hostility to his father and death wishes to his Taylor-6 baby brother ... Freud had to deal with many cases of strange behavior accompanying dreams. "Nightmares" are defined as anxiety-arousing dreams that generally occur near the end of the sleep cycle, during REM sleep. They occur more often...

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