Write all these out in detail. Treat each one as if it were a psychical story—which it is. But do not elaborate.
Split each such psychical story into its elemental parts and use each element as a stimulus idea for developing flows of free associations.
Analyze precisely as you do with dreams.
Now make a composite structure of all the elements of the respective cover-memories—group all the elements of all the cover-memories into one jumble. Shuffle the cards, so to speak.
Next go through this aggregation of elements from all the cover-memories and arrange them in systematic groups. If, for example, you have hair, stone, tree, black, machine, garden, and similar elements occurring more than once, arrange them into groups. You will probably find that certain symbols of ideas have a tendency to become repeated in these cover-memories. They will probably reflect some particular sets of unconscious ideas which have a tendency to become persistent; and, when the significance of such repeating or recurring thought-symbols are revealed, you will have broken into the buried mysteries of your unconscious mental life to a very considerable extent.
Take the composite aggregation of cover-memory elements and mentally view them with intensity for a time. Take the elements which are repeaters and give them special attention. Then permit the mind to roam all over the "mixture." In doing this, try to visualize the memory of each individual element as strongly as possible, and thereby try to re-create in the consciousness the various scenic influences in question.
Now try to make the mind a blank for a moment or so, and to cultivate as restful a mental attitude as possible.
Then write another word-dream. Write fast and without intellectual deliberation.
This story need not be very long, though it ought to be not less than a hundred words; and if there is a tendency for the unconscious ideas to flow more profusely, let them do so.
Call this your cover-memory word-dream.
Go to work and analyze this cover-memory word-dream in the usual way. Split it up into its elemental parts just as you have done with the dreams. In analyzing these cover-memory word-dreams always be on the look-out for the significance of any juvenile memory, especially in relation to your father and mother.
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