And one just as well could say the metaphor of metaphor, the truth of truth, the truth of metaphor. When Freud intends to denude the original Stoff beneath the disguises of secondary fabrication, he is anticipating the truth of the text. The latter, starting from its original content, is to be coordinated with its naked truth, but also with truth as nakedness. These six pages contain two to four literary references. Andersen by Fulda, which, no more than the illustrative recourse to literary material, also provokes no question on Freud's part.
Nakedness gives rise to sustitutes.
The same typical core organizes the dream of the former officer pushed into the street without his saber, without his necktie, or wearing civilian check trousers. All the examples proposed by Freud concern men, and men who exhibit the lack of a phallic attribute, or rather who adopt this exhibitionistic activity. The dreamer alone sees himself naked. And in seeing himself naked he is alone. The onlookers should look, should mock or become indignant, but they do not.