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In his landmark paper on the recovery of childhood memories, Kris compares his presentation with a “visit to a familiar scene, repeated after a lapse of time. I propose to pass over a wide and well-mapped-out area and to stop at certain points to see in what way our reaction to the scenery may have changed” (Kris, 1956a, p. 54). The striking visual imagery of this introduction is reminiscent of (and may well have been inspired by) Freud's rather similar comment midway through The Interpretation of Dreams:
When, after passing through a narrow defile, we suddenly emerge upon a piece of high ground, where the path divides and the finest prospects open up on every side, we may pause for a moment and consider in which direction we shall first turn our steps. (Freud, 1900, p. 122)
Each quotation preceded a discussion of either memories or dreams, and it is probably no accident that both authors chose