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    "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
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            "text": "Vorbericht : Im Frühjahr 1897 erfuhr ich, daß zwei Professoren unserer Universität mich für die Ernennung zum Prof. extraord. vorgeschlagen hatten. Diese Nachricht kam mir überraschend und erfreute mich lebhaft als Ausdruck einer durch persönliche Beziehungen nicht aufzuklärenden Anerkennung von Seite zweier hervorragender Männer. Ich sagte mir aber sofort, daß ich an dieses Ereignis keine Erwartungen knüpfen dürfe. Das Ministerium hatte in den letzten Jahren Vorschläge solcher Art unberücksichtigt gelassen, und mehrere Kollegen, die mir an Jahren voraus waren und an Verdiensten mindestens gleich kamen, warteten seitdem vergebens auf ihre Ernennung. Ich hatte keinen Grund, anzunehmen, daß es mir besser ergehen würde. Ich beschloß also bei mir, mich zu trösten. Ich bin, soviel ich weiß, nicht ehrgeizig, übe meine ärztliche Tätigkeit mit zufriedenstellendem Erfolge aus, auch ohne daß mich ein Titel empfiehlt. Es handelte sich übrigens gar nicht darum, ob ich die Trauben für süß oder sauer erklärte, da sie unzweifelhaft zu hoch für mich hingen.\n\nEines Abends besuchte mich ein befreundeter Kollege, einer von denjenigen, deren Schicksal ich mir zur Warnung hatte dienen lassen. Seit längerer Zeit ein Kandidat für die Beförderung zum Professor, die den Arzt in unserer Gesellschaft zum Halbgott für seine Kranken erhebt, und minder resigniert als ich, pflegte er von Zeit zu Zeit seine Vorstellung in den Bureaus des hohen Ministeriums zu machen, um seine Angelegenheit zu fördern. Von einem solchen Besuche kam er zu mir. Er erzählte, daß er diesmal den hohen Herrn in die Enge getrieben und ihn gerade heraus befragt habe, ob an dem Aufschub seiner Ernennung wirklich – konfessionelle Rücksichten die Schuld trügen. Die Antwort hatte gelautet, daß allerdings – bei der gegenwärtigen Strömung – Se. Exzellenz vorläufig nicht in der Lage sei usw. »Nun weiß ich wenigstens, woran ich bin,« schloß mein Freund seine Erzählung, die mir nichts Neues brachte, mich aber in meiner Resignation bestärken mußte. Dieselben konfessionellen Rücksichten sind nämlich auch auf meinen Fall anwendbar.\n\nAm Morgen nach diesem Besuche hatte ich folgenden Traum, der auch durch seine Form bemerkenswert war. Er bestand aus zwei Gedanken und zwei Bildern, so daß ein Gedanke und ein Bild einander ablösten. Ich setze aber nur die erste Hälfte des Traumes hieher, da die andere mit der Absicht nichts zu tun hat, welcher die Mitteilung des Traumes dienen soll.\n\nI. Freund R. ist mein Onkel. – Ich empfinde große Zärtlichkeit für ihn.\n\nII. Ich sehe sein Gesicht etwas verändert vor mir. Es ist wie in die Länge gezogen, ein gelber Bart, der es umrahmt, ist besonders deutlich hervorgehoben.\n\nDann folgen die beiden anderen Stücke, wieder ein Gedanke und ein Bild, die ich übergehe.\n\nDie Deutung des Onkeltraumes.",
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            "text": "Preliminary report: In the spring of 1897, I learned that two professors at our university had proposed me for appointment as Professor Extraordinarius. This news came as a surprise and delighted me greatly as an expression of recognition from two eminent men that could not be explained by personal connections. But I immediately told myself that I must attach no expectations to this event. In recent years the ministry had disregarded proposals of this kind, and several colleagues who were older than I and at least my equals in merit had since waited in vain for their appointment. I had no reason to assume that I would fare better. I therefore resolved inwardly to console myself. So far as I know, I am not ambitious, and I practise medicine with satisfactory success even without the recommendation of a title. Besides, it was not really a question of whether I declared the grapes sweet or sour, since they unquestionably hung too high for me.\n\nOne evening, a colleague who was a friend visited me, one of those whose fate I had taken as a warning. Long a candidate for promotion to professor, which in our society elevates a physician to a demigod in the eyes of his patients, and less resigned than I, he was accustomed from time to time to present himself at the offices of the exalted ministry in order to advance his case. He came to me after such a visit. He related that this time he had cornered the exalted gentleman and asked him directly whether the delay in his appointment was really due to denominational considerations. The answer had been that, admittedly, given the current climate, His Excellency was not for the present in a position, etc. “Now at least I know where I stand,” my friend concluded his account, which told me nothing new but was bound to strengthen me in my resignation. For the same denominational considerations apply to my case as well.\n\nOn the morning after this visit, I had the following dream, which was also remarkable in its form. It consisted of two thoughts and two images, so that a thought and an image alternated with one another. But I reproduce only the first half of the dream here, since the other has nothing to do with the purpose that the account of the dream is intended to serve.\n\nI. My friend R. is my uncle. I feel great tenderness for him.\n\nII. I see his face before me, somewhat altered. It is as if drawn out lengthwise; a yellow beard framing it is emphasized with particular clarity.\n\nThen follow the two other pieces, again a thought and an image, which I omit.\n\nThe Interpretation of the Dream of the Uncle.",
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            "text": "Rapport préliminaire : Au printemps 1897, j’appris que deux professeurs de notre université m’avaient proposé pour une nomination comme professeur extraordinaire. Cette nouvelle me surprit et me réjouit vivement, en tant qu’expression d’une reconnaissance venant de deux hommes éminents et qui ne pouvait s’expliquer par des relations personnelles. Mais je me dis aussitôt que je ne devais attacher aucune attente à cet événement. Au cours des dernières années, le ministère n’avait pas donné suite à des propositions de ce genre, et plusieurs collègues qui me précédaient par l’âge et les égalaient au moins par le mérite attendaient depuis lors en vain leur nomination. Je n’avais aucune raison de supposer que mon sort serait meilleur. Je résolus donc de me consoler. Autant que je sache, je ne suis pas ambitieux et j’exerce mon activité médicale avec un succès satisfaisant, même sans être recommandé par un titre. Il ne s’agissait d’ailleurs nullement de savoir si je déclarais les raisins doux ou aigres, puisqu’ils pendaient indubitablement trop haut pour moi.\n\nUn soir, je reçus la visite d’un collègue et ami, l’un de ceux dont j’avais pris le sort comme avertissement. Candidat depuis assez longtemps à la promotion au professorat, qui élève le médecin, dans notre société, au rang de demi-dieu aux yeux de ses malades, et moins résigné que moi, il avait coutume de se présenter de temps à autre dans les bureaux du haut ministère afin de faire avancer son affaire. Il venait me voir au retour d’une telle visite. Il raconta qu’il avait cette fois poussé le haut personnage dans ses retranchements et lui avait demandé sans détour si le retard de sa nomination était réellement dû à des considérations confessionnelles. La réponse avait été qu’en effet, dans le courant actuel, Son Excellence n’était provisoirement pas en mesure, etc. « Maintenant, je sais au moins à quoi m’en tenir », conclut mon ami, dont le récit ne m’apprenait rien de nouveau, mais devait me confirmer dans ma résignation. Les mêmes considérations confessionnelles s’appliquent en effet aussi à mon cas.\n\nLe matin qui suivit cette visite, je fis le rêve suivant, également remarquable par sa forme. Il se composait de deux pensées et de deux images, de telle sorte qu’une pensée et une image alternaient. Mais je ne reproduis ici que la première moitié du rêve, l’autre n’ayant aucun rapport avec l’intention que doit servir la communication de ce rêve.\n\nI. Mon ami R. est mon oncle. Je ressens pour lui une grande tendresse.\n\nII. Je vois devant moi son visage quelque peu changé. Il est comme allongé ; une barbe jaune qui l’encadre ressort avec une netteté particulière.\n\nViennent ensuite les deux autres éléments, de nouveau une pensée et une image, que je passe sous silence.\n\nL’interprétation du rêve de l’oncle.",
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