When Jake exercised his profession in southern Colombia, he had the opportunity of analyzing at length a young male patient adult whose symptomatology was of a clear neurotic origin, as depicted by its vagueness and atypical features on top of the patient's tense demeanor. There were feelings of desperation, anxiety, depression and lack of purpose. He was a teacher of elementary school, intelligent but of little learning; most amazingly, he had never left town. In other words, he had never seen a train or anything connected with urban life. Only a few houses enjoyed the little electricity provided by a gasoline generator. There was no television and only a third-rate movie theater that the patient did not visit, since he lived in an even smaller town.

Jake told the patient that he might be helped by means of a treatment based on revealing his thoughts and dreams to Jake --in order to find out what was troubling his spirit. The patient manifested some bewilderment, but agreed to the treatment --since he realized that he was ill at spirit.
Soon it became clear that the subject was a sworn atheist, which indicated that he had searched for God, and having not founding Him, reacted angrily to the frustration by denying His existence. Besides, or expectedly, the patient hated the memory of his father, a person who had been cold and unloving.
The patient returned a few days later and recounted his first dream, in which he sees a man coming toward the marketplace to sell his cure-all potions --a snake around his neck and shoulders-- claiming to be a miracle worker; this charlatan hung some hides on a line.
Jake explained to the analizand that he was equating the analyst to a quack doctor using unorthodox treatment, criticizing him also for exposing the patient's 'hide' or 'dirty linen' to stranger's eyes. The patient chuckled, as he realized that there is truth in the analysis of dreams.

These images are seemingly quite simple and may not require further elaboration. But later on the patient dreamed that he stroke a match in a dark room, and that his father blew it in anger. Jake was most impressed, since this was a rather clear image of Zeus being angry at his son Prometheus for having revealed the secret of fire. The patient was unable to contribute to the interpretation; he had not read about those mythical gods. Thus, we might start to think that the myth has some hidden universal meaning basic to the origin and evolution of humanity.
Further on, a dream showed the patient walking on a dark night along a very narrow path in the mountains, holding a child by his hand. Wild beasts fell to the deep abyss, bellowing guttural cries of mortal fear and primeval horror. As the patient kept walking and approaching the end of the path, he descried a distant light, like of a house.

Jake had learned from Stekel's writings that a child in a dream frequently symbolizes the child Jesus, so he asked the patient,
"Do you know the child?"
"Yes, he is my youngest son."
"What is his name?" Jake was sure that the answer would be "Jesus." But the answer was: "Redento."

Jake asked, "Redento? I've never heard that name before!"
"I took away the last letter of 'Redemptor' and made up a new name for my son." was the patient's reply.
"What made you give your child such name?" "My son was born on a Good Friday. I believed that his birth was a sign that my troubled spirit was about to be redeemed."