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Abstract
The dream of is the most famous dream that Freud shared in his groundbreaking book , published 1900. In the 125 years since its publication, the has been extensively analyzed by Freud and successors in the psychoanalytic field. One aspect that has remained unexplored touches upon the implicit imagery of the scenic dream, where a number of male doctors examine the young female Irma, at the time patient of Freud, and inject her with a solution (). The implicit sexual material and underlying dream-thoughts have connection to archaic mythological imagery, found in the substratum of Western culture. This paper explores these images and their connection to Greco-Roman mythology as well as western European art, converging on the legend of the . Irma's injection The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) Irma Dream lösung Rape of the Sabine Women