In this short paper, the author revisits Freud's “Dream of the Botanical Monograph.” In his associations to this dream, Freud recalled an early childhood event in which he and his sister Anna, at their father's urging, shredded a book of colored plates. The author shows that, based on the dates of publication, Freud displaced this “screen memory” at least a year or two into the past from the actual likely date.

The author provides summaries of two modern investigators' interpretations of Freud's dream and related associations, based on biographical and other information. He follows this with what he calls “collateral findings” (p. 309), which support the view of Freud's “bibliophile pro