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The author regards the story in Exodus of the Levite couple who were Moses's parents as a dream. The dreamer is represented by the sister who stood and watched the discovery of the child, and who must therefore, if Freud is correct about Moses's origin, have been Pharaoh's daughter. Since the ark is a symbol for the uterus, the three months' growth of the child represents intra-uterine, not extra-uterine life, so that the discovery of the child represents the small girl's recognition of her mother's pregnancy.