Mrs. Maitland, hitherto pale, was now flushed and indignant. Yet
the very manner of her indignation showed the truth of the new
psychology of dreams, for, as I learned afterward, people often
become indignant when the Freudists strike what is called the
"main complex."

"There are other motives just as important," protested Dr. Boss.
"Here in America the money motive, ambition--"

"Let me finish," interposed Kennedy. "I want to consider the other
dream also. Fear is equivalent to a wish in this sort of dream. It
also, as I have said, denotes sex. In dreams animals are usually
symbols. Now, in this second dream we find both the bull and the
serpent, from time immemorial, symbols of the continuing of the
life-force. Dreams are always based on experiences or thoughts of
the day preceding the dreams. You, Mrs. Maitland, dreamed of a
man's face on these beasts. There was every chance of having him
suggested to you. You think you hate him. Consciously you reject
him; unconsciously you accept him. Any of the new psychologists
who knows the intimate connection between love and hate, would
understand how that is possible. Love does not extinguish hate; or
hate, love. They repress each other. The opposite sentiment may
very easily grow."

The situation was growing more tense as he proceeded. Was not
Kennedy actually taxing her with loving another?

"The dreamer," he proceeded remorselessly, "is always the
principal actor in a dream, or the dream centres about the dreamer