What is the white hotel in the novel, The White Hotel?

The white hotel is a hallucinatory setting. It is located by a green lake and is surrounded by mountains. There are a small tavern, a convent, and a church in the mountains. Most of the action in the white hotel takes place in the young couple's hotel room and on their balcony, but they also venture into the surrounding wilderness, the dining room of the hotel, and the billiard room. According to Freud, the white hotel symbolizes the mother's womb, but at the end of the book, the white hotel is at the Holy Land refugee camp where Lisa spends her afterlife.