Historical dream account · German · original text
The triangle becomes a spike
Wilhelm Stekel
Die Sprache des Traumes (1911) · Printed example (19); printed pages 24; PDF pages 34
Dreamer identified by the source: X. Z. (source pseudonym)
Ich träume von einem Dreieck, das irgend einen philosophischen Gedanken symbolisieren soll und mir und vielleicht noch jemand anderem als Unterlage dient Das Dreieck wird immer schmäler und spitzer, zuletzt ist es nur wie ein Spiess und kann also für nichts mehr die Basis bilden und ich muss in eine ungeheure Tiefe hinabfallen. Ich erwache mit einem lauten Schrei und zittere am ganzen Körper.
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 (19), pp. 24. Digitized copy: International Psychoanalytic University Berlin / Internet Archive. Stekel identifies the narrator only as a philosopher, X.Z.; no identity inferred.
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 (19); printed pages 24; PDF pages 34
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
- Falling
Connections in the Loom
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