, 1882, pp.
250 et seq.) Raymond and Janet state (_Les Obscessions_, vol. ii,
p. 135) that nocturnal incontinence of urine, accompanied by
dreams of urination, may be replaced at puberty by masturbation.
In the reverse direction, Freud believes (_Monatsschrift fuer
Psychiatrie_, Bd. XVIII, p. 433) that masturbation plays a large
part in causing the bed-wetting of children who have passed the
age when that usually ceases, and he even finds that children are
themselves aware of the connection.
The diagnostic value of sexual dreams, as an indication of the
sexual nature of the subject when awake, has been emphasized by
various writers. (E.g., Moll, _Die Kontraere Sexualempfindung_,
Ch. IX; Naecke, "Der Traum als feinstes Reagens fuer die Art des
sexuellen Empfindens," _Monatsschrift fuer Kriminalpsychologie_,
1905, p. 500.) Sexual dreams tend to reproduce, and even to
accentuate, those characteristics which make the strongest sexual
appeal to the subject when awake.
At the same time, this general statement has to be qualified,
more especially as regards inverted dreams. In the first place, a
young man, however normal, who is not familiar with the feminine
body when awake, is not likely to see it when asleep, even in
dreams of women; in the second place, the confusions and
combinations of dream imagery often tend to obliterate sexual
distinctions, however free from perversions the subjects may be.
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