Character Analysis
During his long interpretation of a dream in which he appeared in public "very incompletely dressed" (5.4.34), Freud suggests that part of the latent content of the dream came from childhood memories of the nurse who looked after him until he was two-and-a-half years old (5.5.15). Although Freud doesn't have very detailed memories of this nurse, he suspects that she was "reincarnated" in his dream in the form of a younger maidservant whose presence makes him anxious (5.5.15).