excites the dream” is never identified—Vitz.] I refer to a series of dreams which are based on the longing to go to Rome. For a long time to come I shall probably have to satisfy this longing by means of dreams.” Two dreams about Rome are briefly mentioned but not told. In regard to the second one it is stated: “The motive to see the promised land from afar is here easily recognizable.”
The third dream about Rome: “I am at last in Rome—as the dream tells me. To my disappointment the scenery is anything but urban: it consists of a little stream of dark water on one side of which are black rocks, while on the other are meadows with large white flowers. I notice a certain Herr Zucker (with whom I superficially acquainted), and resolve to ask him to show me the way into the city.”127
FREUD’S INTERPRETATION AS PRESENTED BY VELIKOVSKY“It is obvious that I am trying in vain to see in my dream a city which I have never seen in my waking life.” The scenery reminds him of Ravenna where he saw beautiful water-lilies in black water. Further the narcissi of Aussee. The dark rock recalls the valley of the Tepe at Karlsbad. The name Karlsbad reminds him of several Jewish anecdotes. One concerns a Jew who because he has no railroad ticket is put off the train repeatedly and who, upon being asked at one of the stations of his martyrdom where he is going replies: “If my constitution holds out—to Karlsbad.” The memory of Karlsbad explains the peculiar circumstance that “I ask Mr. Zucker (Zucker—sugar) to show me the way.” We usually send our patients with the constitutional disease, diabetes [Zuckerkrankheit] to Karlsbad. “Asking the way” is a direct allusion to Rome, for we all know “all roads lead to Rome.” “The occasion for this dream was the proposal of my Berlin friend that we should meet in Prague at Easter. A further association with sugar and diabetes might be found in the matters which I had to discuss with him.” “During my last Italian journey I considered the plan of traveling in the following year to Naples via Rome.” “I myself had walked in Hannibal’s footsteps: as little as he was I destined to see Rome, and he too had gone to Campagna when all were expecting him in Rome. Hannibal, with whom I had achieved this point of similarity had been my favorite hero during my years at the gymnasium”… Freud continues: “Hannibal and Rome symbolized, in my youthful eyes, the contrast between the tenacity of Judaism and the organization of the Catholic Church. The significance for our emotional life which the anti-semitic movement has since assumed helped to fix the thoughts and impressions of those earlier days. Thus the desire to go to Rome has in my dream-life become the mask and symbol for a number of warmly cherished wishes, for whose realization one had to work with the tenacity and single-mindedness of the Punic soldier, though their fulfillment at times seemed as remote as Hannibal’s life-long wish to enter Rome. And now, for the first time, I happened upon the youthful experience which even today still expresses its power in all these emotions and dreams.”128 Freud then recited the incident of his father and the Christian who knocked off his hat and insulted him for being a Jew (this is mentioned in |