[Sex differences in dreams. Content analysis of oknophile and philobatic dream images in the dreams of children and adolescents].

Until now it had been observed that in their dreams girls concern themselves more with inter-human relationships, whereas boys concern themselves stronger with the outside world and aggressive striving. In this survey manifest dreams, as reported in psychotherapies, spontaneously remembered and taken down by the children and young people themselves, were examined with an index in which Balint's theories about oknophilia and philobatism were used. The question whether there are any differences of sex was checked there. One important result of this survey was that girls in fact dream more oknophile subjects, whereas boys dream more philobatic ones. As the philobatic attitude might be put down to an earlier trauma than the oknophile one, this result here above all corresponds with the hypothesis of the feminist psychoanalytics (Chodorow, Olivier), that boys axe dismissed from the symbiosis with their mothers too early. With that they get into a premature independence they are not up to. Girls on the other hand are rather overcharged narcissistically and their mothers hold on to them for too long.