Historical dream account · German · original text
A puppy arrives as an old dog dies
Wilhelm Stekel
Die Sprache des Traumes (1911) · Printed example (15); printed pages 22; PDF pages 32
Dreamer identified by the source: Anonymous historical dreamer
Ich sehe unsern Hund alt und verfallen am Sofa liegen und sein Leben aushauchen. Mein Schwiegersohn kommt plötzlich nach Hause mit einem kleinen, lieben, braunen Hund. Ich frage ihn: „So schnell hast Du Dich getröstet?“ Er zuckt die Achseln und sagt: „Warum nicht? Wer hat was davon, wenn ich noch traure. Man muss sich in das Unvermeidliche fügen.
Source & context
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 (15), pp. 22. Digitized copy: International Psychoanalytic University Berlin / Internet Archive. Anonymous older woman in Stekel’s published account; waking bereavement details omitted.
1911 is source publication year; exact dream date is not established.
Public domain in the United States ↗
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.
Source locator and text provenance
Printed example (15); printed pages 22; PDF pages 32
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.
- Account text SHA-256
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- Source file SHA-256
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Content notes
- Death loss
- Animal death
Connections in the Loom
Titles, theme labels, illustrations and map connections are editorial navigation aids. They are separate from the account’s words and do not establish connections between real people.