The tests of this interpretation which I have been able to make in my
own case, and in that of others, although by no means exhaustive, were
entirely in its favour. 注释50For example, I failed in my examination for
the doctor's degree in medical jurisprudence; never once has the matter
worried me in my dreams, while I have often enough been examined in
botany, zoology, and chemistry, and I sat for the examinations in these
subjects with well-justified anxiety, but escaped disaster, through the
clemency of fate, or of the examiner. In my dreams of school
examinations, I am always examined in history, a subject in which I
passed brilliantly at the time, but only, I must admit, because my
good-natured professor—my one-eyed benefactor in another dream—did not
overlook the fact that on the examination-paper which I returned to him
I had crossed out with my fingernail the second of three questions, as a
hint that he should not insist on it. One of my patients, who withdrew
before the matriculation examination. only to pass it later, but failed
in the officer's examination, so that he did not become an officer,
tells me that he often dreams of the former examination, but never of
the latter.
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This anecdote aligns with Freudian ideas about defense mechanisms and the unconscious. The lack of worry over the failure might reflect an unconscious acceptance or even a latent desire, demonstrating how psychoanalytic theory can be tested and supported through personal case studies. Such self-reflection is central to Freud’s method, where the analyst’s own experiences and reactions become part of the evidence for theoretical claims, bridging the gap between abstract interpretation and concrete human behavior.

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