Schimmel argues for the superiority of transference material to dreams for analytic interpretations. If we deal with instinctual forces as manifested in the transference, we have the best chance to expand secondary process thinking. If the dream is given preferential treatment without being linked to the transference, we align ourselves on the side of primary process thinking and risk arousing unconscious instinctual impulses without the opportunity to reveal their maladaptation to present reality. This leaves the analysand open to a traumatic inundation of primary anxieties which he can deal with only by re-enforcing his repression. The author examines Dora's dreams for their transference material and suggests that interpretation of this material might have prevented Dora's interruption of the therapy.