| "It is true that the tendency of
dreams and of unconscious phantasies to employ sexual symbols bisexually betrays
an archaic characteristic; for in childhood the distinction between the genitals
of the two sexes is unknown and the same kind of genitals are attributed
to both of them.
But it is possible, too, to be misled into wrongly
supposing that a sexual symbol is bisexual, if one forgets that in some dreams
there is a general inversion of sex, so that what is male is represented as
female and vice versa. Dreams of this kind may, for instance, express
a woman's wish to be a man."
-- Sigmund Freud, Interpertation of Dreams
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