The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- taking a measurement for clothes (seeing or doing it yourself): expresses the longing to reveal the significance and size of the ego and the power of its effect; measuring parts of the human body always entail the instinctual essence; the measurement of limbs and protruding parts has a phallic nature; orifices and depressions relate to the female genitalia; such measuring always conceals sexuality and the longing for sexual intercourse.
