Freud's dream redundantly and recursively portrays writing, books, and bibliophilism. He receives a letter in which Fliess "sees himself turning the pages" of the yet-to-be-written Interpretation of Dreams, envies Fliess his prescience, dreams this "botanical" monograph, and builds the core of his argument about the dream work around this and related examples, allowing him to complete the conception of psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic discipline. Weighty matters.