I get on the plane that  I face the harsh realities of life.

     One  evening,  Colleen,  her  teacher and  twelve other
college  students  who  were  interested  in  learning how
dream  reflection may facilitate  creative  scholarship  as
well as self-knowledge paid homage to Freud, in passing,
as  follows:  "What,"   they  asked,  "might  the  repressed
infantile wish have been that Colleen's dream censor was
seeking to fulfill in  its  well  known  devious  ways?"  An
untrained  housewife,  in  the  first  year  of her return  to
college,    ventured    a    knowing    question:    "Do   you
remember,"  she  asked,   "ever   having   witnessed   your
parents  making  love   when  you   were  a  young  child?"
"No," said Colleen,  "why do you  ask?"  "Well,  a  number
of   things  in  your  dream  suggest  it  may  be  trying  to
disguise  a  wish  to  witness  or  re—witness  the  primal
scene."
     Following  the  lead of  this  hypothesis, we  made  the
following  observations: The  pilot  in  full  uniform,  i.e.,
fully   dressed,   might,   by   its   emphasis,   suggest   the
opposite, i.e.,  undressed.  Watching  the view  from  afar,
and seeing the plane  on  which  she  was  a  passenger  go
down  from  the  outside,   again,  could   be  a   defensive
attempt to put distance on  a wish or an experience which
was  in  fact  all   too  closely  compelling. "I  cannot  see
them ... I am... in  a  state of incomprehension"  begins  to
put  the  primal  scene   more   clearly   into   focus.  "The
schedule  should  be kept" could stand  for  "I've got to go
to  sleep." Then, the  repressed wish  comes  as  close  to
being openly fulfilled as  the censor will permit in: "I see
Russ  and  Colleen  (my  parents' friends)  lying  close  to
each other dead.  But then  it  appears they  are playing  at
being dead,  for I  see them  move." Finally, "my family is
not  expecting  me ..."  "I  am  sick  at  the  thought..."  "I'll
never  be  able  to  communicate  all I've been through ..."
"fear,  death ..."  "I   did   not  go   in ..."  are   all   possible
references to a primal scene trauma.
     "All  very  plausible,"  said  the  teacher,  "and possibly
true.  But  is  it interesting?"  "Colleen,  is it  interesting?"
"Yes, I think so," said Colleen, "but what else?"
     "I  think  I  know  what  else,"   said  someone,  "it's  an
identity-seeking   dream."  Following  the   lead   of   this

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