Brill confirms Freud's statement that, whereas dream-interpretation is ordinarily done by means of free associations furnished by the dreamer, it can sometimes be done by an auxiliary method of interpreting the symbolism of the dream. And, further, what is to-day symbolically connected was probably related in primitive times by conceptual and linguistic identity. It is therefore 'not surprising to find that an Indian Maharanee and a southern American lady express the same problem by the same symbol.'