Chiwantopel has the character of Cassius, who has a lamb as a companion. Therefore, Chiwantopel is the portion of the dreamer's libido bound up with the mother (and, therefore, masculine); hence he is her infantile personality, the childishness of character, which as yet is unable to understand that one must leave father and mother, when the time is come, in order to serve the destiny of the entire personality. This is outlined in Nietzsche's words:
"Free dost thou call thyself? Thy dominant thought would
I hear and not that thou hast thrown off a yoke. Art thou one
who had the right to throw off a yoke? There are many who
throw away their last value when they throw away their servitude."
Therefore, when Chiwantopel dies, it means that herein
is a fulfilment of a wish, that this infantile hero, who
cannot leave the mother's care, may die. And if with that
the bond between mother and daughter is severed, a
great step forward is gained both for inner and outer
freedom. But man wishes to remain a child too long; he
would fain stop the turning of the wheel, which, rolling,
bears along with it the years; man wishes to keep his
childhood and eternal youth, rather than to die and suffer
corruption in the grave. ("O, do not suffer my body to
fall into decay and corruption.") Nothing brings the
relentless flight of time and the cruel perishability of all
blossoms more painfully to our consciousness than an inactive
and empty life. Idle dreaming is the mother of
the fear of death, the sentimental deploring of what has
been and the vain turning back of the clock. Although
man can forget in the long- (perhaps too long) guarded
