a-general-introduction-to-psychoanalysis-sigmund-freud

A fourth type of relation between the manifest and the latent dream cannot
be dealt with until its cue in the technique has been given. Even then I shall
not have given you a complete enumeration, but it will be sufficient for our
purpose.
Have you the courage to venture upon the interpretation of an entire dream?
Let us see if we are well enough equipped for this undertaking. Of course, I
shall not choose one of the most obscure, but one nevertheless that shows in
clear outline the general characteristics of a dream.
A young woman who has been married for many years dreams: "She is sitting
in the theatre with her husband; one side of the orchestra is entirely
unoccupied. Her husband tells her that Elise L. and her bridegroom had also
wished to come, but had only been able to procure poor seats, three for 1 Fl.,
50 Kr. and those of course they could not take. She thinks this is no
misfortune for them."
The first thing that the dreamer has to testify is that the occasion for the
dream is touched upon in its manifest content. Her husband had really told
her that Elise L., an acquaintance of about her age, had become engaged.
The dream is the reaction to this news. We already know that in the case of
many dreams it is easy to trace such a cause to the preceding day, and that
the dreamer often gives these deductions without any difficulty. The dreamer
also places at our disposal further information for other parts of the manifest
dream content. Whence the detail that one side of the orchestra is
unoccupied? It is an allusion to an actual occurrence of the previous week.
She had made up her mind to go to a certain performance and had procured
tickets in advance, so much in advance that she had been forced to pay a
preference tax.[28] When she arrived at the theatre, she saw how needless
had been her anxiety, for one side of the orchestra was almost empty. She
could have bought the tickets on the day of the performance itself. Her
husband would not stop teasing her about her excessive haste. Whence the 1
Fl. 50 Kr.? From a very different connection that has nothing to do with the
former, but which also alludes to an occurrence of the previous day. Her
sister-in-law had received 150 florins as a present from her husband, and
knew no better, the poor goose, than to hasten to the jeweler and spend the
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