Twenty-Third Session

Richard was a little late and therefore had run all the way; he was very concerned about losing two minutes of his session. He said that he had not brought the fleet; he had decided that he did not want it. After a pause he added that he did not want it to get wet in the rain.… A little later he said how much he disliked rainy weather. There was again a silence.

Mrs K. reminded him that in the previous day's dream he had a mackintosh on because it rained.

Richard in the meantime had begun to draw, more deliberately and carefully than usual. He said that it was not so much because of the rain that he had put on a mackintosh, but that at the beginning of the dream he had been in the water with the fishes. (At this point he showed resistance but did reply to a few questions about the dream.) He said the leader of the fishes was not the same as any fish represented in his drawings; it might have been a trout. He had also been very friendly and sweet to Richard.

Mrs K. suggested that Richard did not trust the fish, as he had agreed yesterday, and that this was shown by his preferring to go to Munich.

Here Richard again showed anxiety and resistance. He first