Ranger28 Apr 2006

I struggled with the title a little. I wanted to incorporate the Oedipal ideas with the mother tongue (being our subconscious language rather than our conscious native language). I was also trying to fit both interpretations of the poem into the title - therefore it is supposed to show both a hypno-psychoanalytic approach to working out the meaning of the dream, which ends up with the patient walking out on the analyst (mirroring the 'Dora' case), and also the dreamer discovering that the interpretation of their dream was accurate. Maybe I should change the title to 'Freud Spoke Of A Mother's Tongue, But I Interpret Dreams'. That might make it clearer.
R.E. slips of the tongue - they are addressed even though they don't feature too prominently. It's in stanza 2.
Many thanks again for commenting, my writing's in a pretty dire state at the moment and I need the help getting back on track.