Grinstein briefly reviews the meanings of the automobile in the manifest dream, then reports five dreams from the analyses of four male patients. In these dreams, the 'convertible' automobile was chosen to express the idea that the patient could be converted into a woman. This is an example of 'plastic word representation'. The automobile serves as a bisexual symbol. All the patients had strong passive tendencies with intense anxiety. Passivity was used as a defense against aggressive impulses.