"In another dream, the dreamer, again a doctor, he, the doctor, was
'performing' an autopsy on a cadaver that was himself, aged by at least
thirty years. What he did in the dream was to disembowel the cadaver bit
by bit and dissect carefully each organ and then gather all the
dissected bits together in his hands and deposit them back into the
empty intra-abdomined space and then coarsely sew up the wide autopsy
incision that ran from throat to pubis. And then a beautiful young nurse
came in and touched the reconstructed dead man in a caring way that got
the cadaver to sit up in an enlivened manner ready to move into of
further after-death scene with a simple gratitude and a fleeting but
retrospective glance at his whole life."
David Cooper, The Death of the Family.
