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Alma, a woman in her middle fifties, who had never married and is interested in graphology, had the following dream in which graphological material was used: “Mr. Blue is standing in front of me, reading something that I have written. He complains that it is very hard to read. I apologize and say that I use my typewriter whenever I can. He says with a smile that the a in father is all right.” The mood of the dream was a pleasant one, and Alma felt happy when she awoke.
Years ago she had attended a series of lectures which Blue gave. He had been a nice young man but of little interest to her, and she was wondering why she should suddenly dream of him until it struck her that she knew another man with the same name of whom she had thought the evening before.
She had met this Mr. Blue 2, an elderly man, at a party, and he had reminded her of her late father of whom she had been extremely fond. They had been out together once, and afterwards she had reproached herself, thinking that he might have preferred to break up their meeting sooner and stayed out late only because he could see that she wanted it. That had been long ago, but even the evening before the dream she had felt very embarrassed when she suddenly remembered the little incident. Having associated that far, she realized that the Mr. Blue of the dream was not the insignificant young man to whom the manifest dream-content pointed but probably a symbol of her own father.
To the graphological part of the dream she had the following associations. Her handwriting is actually very hard to read, and she is quite self-conscious about it. As she states in her dream, she uses as a rule her typewriter. But