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Paul Schilder. Psa. Rev., XXIX, 1942, pp. 113–126. Schilder complains that dream interpretation has been comparatively neglected in recent psychoanalytic literature, and further that the experiences which he summarized in the concept of body image have not been scientifically elaborated. Psychoanalysis is concerned with the symbolic representations of the genital organs and erogenous zones as they occur in dream language. Schilder points out that the awareness of the dreamer's own body and its relation to other bodies is also depicted in dreams—not only parts of the body, but the idea of the total body is always present. The body image frequently enters the manifest dream directly, without symbolic disguise. It may be an adult body image or that of an earlier stage of development with infantile attributes. Concern about body integrity is a frequent motive for the body image in the dream.