So far, in the discussion of the power motivation, we have dealt mainly with the effects of an imagined power failure. We should like now to focus on the competitive aspects of this motivation. The vocational, social, and marital areas of behavior provide many opportunities for power struggles between men and women.

In the third dream she attempted to steal the penis from her father:

It was a long time ago when she was a child, although in the dream she appeared as an adult. She was in her father's room. She stole some money from his pants and stuffed it into a condom. In her haste, she dropped the condom and it rolled under the bed. She got down on her hands and knees and felt for it. She found it, but her hands got dirty. A policeman chased her. She feared the dirty hands would give her away.