"Irma's Injection:

The images: Associations
The Dream

• the hall: Bellevue ...
• Irma: Female hysterics ...
• "Irma's" pale and puffy face: Pregnancy ...
• Irma's throat: Diphtheria ...
• Irma's "throat's" curly structures: Nasal neurosis ...
• M's beardless face and limp: Contempt ...
• Irma's percussed body: Eroticism, shame ...
• propyl ... trimethylamin: Sex ...

The "latent" (inferred) content

• "I am not responsible for Irma's troubles."
• "Her problem is sexual unfulfillment, not hysteria."
• "Breuer/Oscar/Rosenberg made her sick, not me."
• "What she needs is a good dose of ... trimethyl amine."
• "She's too sexual/attractive/seductive for her/my own good."