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Since Freud pointed it out, we are well acquainted with the bisexual nature of symbols and of psychogenic organic symptoms. Three dreams of a man whose central problem was latent homosexuality show the use of the nose as representing a vagina; also a connection of both these organs with the anus. This is in accord with the well-known physiological relationship of nose and genital, and presumably reflects in the psychological sphere this physiological relationship. In this case the connection between nose and vagina is frankly expressed in dreams. This suggests that this patient's unconscious feminine wishes were a factor in his pruritus ani, and possibly in his sinusitis, in this particular case.