Everyone who has received his certificate of matriculation after passing
his final examination at school complains of the persistence with which
he is plagued by anxiety-dreams in which he has failed, or must go
through his course again, etc.
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This sentence from The Interpretation of Dreams is concise, relatable, and illustrative. It uses a universal post-graduation anxiety dream as a vivid example, making abstract dream psychology easily understandable to readers, and lays a down-to-earth foundation for Freud’s subsequent analysis of dream meanings.