Historical dream account · German · original text

Animals thrown from a ladder

Wilhelm Stekel

Die Sprache des Traumes (1911) · Printed example (8); printed pages 6; PDF pages 16

Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous dreamer recorded by Sigmund Freud

Ein Stubenmädchen steht auf der Leiter wie zum Fensterputzen und hat einen Schimpanse und eine Gorillakatze (später korrigiert: Angorakatze) bei sich. Sie wirft die Tiere auf die Träumerin; der Schimpanse schmiegt sich an die letztere an, und das ist sehr ekelhaft.

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A published historical dream report quoted in Wilhelm Stekel’s Die Sprache des Traumes (1911). The original German narrative is preserved after documented OCR corrections and page-furniture removal. Attribution distinguishes the dreamer from the recorder; clinical interpretation and waking case history are excluded. This is not a Synastry community submission.

Wilhelm Stekel, Die Sprache des Traumes (J.F.Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1911), example (8), pp. 6. Digitized copy: International Psychoanalytic University Berlin / Internet Archive. Stekel explicitly quotes Freud’s Traumdeutung, p.250; dreamer remains unnamed.

1911 is source publication year; exact dream date is not established.

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Underlying German text published in 1911; public domain in the United States. The Public Domain Mark is a status marker, not an exclusive license grant. Bibliographic attribution and source report numbers are retained. No modern translation or clinical interpretation is included.

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Printed example (8); printed pages 6; PDF pages 16

The original text and redactions are preserved. The page title is an editorial navigation label.

Whitespace and line-break hyphenation normalized; running page headers omitted; only listed OCR errors corrected after image inspection. Original German; no translation or invented details.

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Content notes
  • Fear or disgust

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