“A garden shut up is my sister, my bride”
The Interpretation of Dreams“A garden shut up is my sister, my bride” is a biblical image cited in the book’s discussion of dream interpretation. Its significance lies in the way a compact poetic phrase can become material for associative reading, linking the image of a garden to intimacy and desire without reducing it to a single fixed meaning.
Biblical Source
The phrase comes from Song of Songs 4:12. In its scriptural setting, the garden is described as shut up, and the verse identifies it with the speaker’s sister and bride. The cited line therefore brings together enclosure, kinship, and erotic intimacy in one image.
Place in the Dream-Interpretive Context
The book presents the verse as a source relevant to its reading of dream material. Its appearance illustrates how a remembered literary or religious phrase may enter interpretation as an image whose associations exceed its literal wording. The evidence identifies the biblical source but does not specify a particular dream or establish one definitive interpretation; the image remains available for analysis within the surrounding discussion of dream symbolism.
