As, for example: while passing
a strange young woman, overtaken on the street, she calls after
me some question. At first, I pay no heed, but when she calls
again, I hesitate whether to turn back and answer or
not--emission. Again, walking beside a young woman, she said,
'Shall I take your arm?' I offered it, and she took it, entwining
her arm around it, and raising it high--emission. I could feel
stronger erection as she asked the question. Sometimes, a word
was enough; sometimes, a gesture. Once emission took place on my
noticing the young woman's diminished finger-nails. Another
example of fetichism was my being curiously attracted in a dream
by the pretty embroidered figure on a little girl's dress. As an
illustration of the strange metamorphoses that occur in dreams, I
one night, in my dream (I had been observing partridges in the
summer) fell in love with a partridge, which changed under my
caresses to a beautiful girl, who yet retained an indescribable
wild-bird innocence, grace, and charm--a sort of Undina!"
These experiences may be regarded as fairly typical of the erotic
dreams of healthy and chaste young men. The bird, for instance,
that changes into a woman while retaining some elements of the
bird, has been encountered in erotic dreams by other young men.
It is indeed remarkable that, as De Gubernatis observes, "the
bird is a well-known phallic symbol," while Maeder finds
("Interpretations de Quelques Reves," _Archives de Psychologie_,
April, 1907) that birds have a sexual significance both in life
and in dreams.
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