The Deadly Space Between
“He sought out the famous analyst when his neuroses became too much for him. I imagined the unhappy Count, journeying night and day across snow-covered steppes and arriving in the glittering capital, a world of operettas, chandeliers and diamonds, descending from his carriage and demanding the way to the house in the Berggasse and the small bearded Jew who held the keys to the mind. Did he lie on the legendary couch covered in carpets gazing at the cabinets of goddesses, trying to remember what ...it felt like to be bathed by strangers, kissed by unknown perfumed women, whipped by his older sister? How can you remember the sensations of infancy? Did the doctor ask leading questions? Did he sit silent, puffing on his solitary cigar, wishing his patients in hell? Did he pound the couch if they got their dreams all wrong? Did he doze off, bored with the second-hand clichés of memory? How, above all, for that was the question which obsessed me, did he persuade them to remember?Or did he hand them their memories, slice by slice, with the ultimate promise of a cure?MoreLess
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