Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorial was purchased by Edward Morris, on the suggestion of Mario Corelli. Tradition says that the writer made the suggestion to Morris and Sir Thomas Lipton, while visiting the latter's yacht. There was considerable fumbling for check books, with Lipton finally insisting that he would not dream of being such a bad host as to usurp his guest's privilege of endowing the building...
...dream aircraft that takes off vertically like a helicopter, but flies horizontally like a proper airplane, is gradually coming true. Last week, at Fort Worth, Bell Aircraft Corp. showed a prototype convertiplane. It looks like an airplane, but it has two helicopter rotors projecting from nacelles on the tips of its stubby wings...
...Jeffries as the White Queen, and Timothy Cogan as the Mad Hatter give their parts true Carrollian personalities, although Cogan is too often difficult to understand. All the other characters add ably to the total merriment, and when Alice asks at the end, "Wasn't it a wonderful dream?" even the jaded will be liable to agree...
After several sessions the businessman tells of a dream: "I am sitting on a large wagon, laden with hay, which I am driving back to the barn, but the load of hay is so high that the lintel of the door into the barn knocks me on the head, so that I fall off my seat and I wake up terrified in the act of falling." For the Freudian, the barn is a symbol of the female genitalia; the dream represents a tendency to return to the womb, but because this has undertones of incestuous desire, it would be followed...
...Jungian analyst takes the dream more literally. After examining and reexamining it in the context of the patient's life (Jung distrusts all set dream theories), the analyst suggests this meaning: the patient has overloaded his wagon beyond its capacity; as a result, his conscious intentions receive a blow. The dream is an attempt by the unconscious to redress the balance of an exaggerated extraverted attitude which is becoming less and less appropriate as the businessman grows older...