[113]. The symbolic expression of beliefs and symbolic answers to doubts and scruples is quite common in another type of symbolism, viz., visions. Religious and political history is replete with examples.
[114]. Loc. cit.
[115]. It has been answered that experience in a large number of cases shows that dreams always can be related logically to sexual experiences. To this it may be answered they can also in an equal number of cases, indeed in many of these same cases, be related to non-sexual experiences.
[116]. Loc. cit. It is possible, however, that sometimes the problem has been solved subconsciously in the waking state, the answer then appearing in the dream.
[117]. Here we find an analogy with certain allied phenomena—the visions and voices experienced as phenomena of sudden religious conversion.
[118]. Francis Joseph and His Sir[Sir] Horace Rumbold. Page 151. (Italics mine.)
[119]. See also, “The Psychology of Sudden Religious Conversion,” Journal Abnormal Psychology, April, 1906, and “The Dissociation,” 2nd Edit., pages 344 and 564; also James’ “The Varieties of Religious Experience.”
[120]. Quoted by William James, page 343.
[121]. Some will undoubtedly read into Margaret’s vision a cryptic sexual symbolism. To do so seems to me too narrow a view, in that it fails to give full weight to other instincts (and emotions) and to appreciate all the forces of human personality.
[122]. Lecture VI, pp. 169-172.