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Beauty and the butcher -the desire of the hysteric and its interpretation.

Maeve Nolan

Issue 3 — Spring 1995

21–35

There was once a clever hysteric. It was the turn of the century and because she was a hysteric she went to see Dr. Freud. In fact, because she was a hysteric she went to outwit him, and to prove to him that his newly-elaborated dream theory was wrong. He had concluded that dreams always represent the fulfilment of a wish, so she brought him a dream which was the exact opposite - a dream in which one of her wishes was not fulfilled and she defied him to fit that into his theory.…

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