DISCUSSION: Dr. Max Schur was impressed with the painstaking research Dr. Grinstein applied to the latent content and to Freud's associations, but he did not feel that the author had provided a more penetrating interpretation of the manifest dream than Freud was either willing or able to give. Dr. Schur had hoped that this study would be limited to showing how intimately the context of Freud's literary references was interwoven with his associations. It was important for Freud to find in works of art and in mythology the same leitmotif he discovered in his self-analysis and in the analyses of patients; he looked to literature for confirmation of the ubiquity of infantile fantasies, especially since his main source for his theoretical conceptions was his own