Maeve Nolan – Beauty and the Butcher – The Desire of the Hysteric and it’s Interpretation
 
THE LETTER 03 (Spring 1995) pages 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. This was...