"Hello?"
"Hello, Brad, it's been a while."
"Who is this?"
"You know who it is."
"..."
"..."
"What can I do for you, Whitney?"
"Freud wrote that in some cases we can obtain the sense of the dream only by subjecting the dream content to manifold inversion in different directions. Do you follow?"
"Well -- "
"For example, in the dream of a young patient, say you yourself, Brad, suffering from a compulsion neurosis, the memory of an infantile death-wish against a dreaded father was hidden behind the following words..."
"..."
"..."
"What are the words?"
"Just think for a minute: which one of our dreams has led who to become an internationally renowned artist with a cultural cache destined to outlive her by at least a generation and more likely two or three, and who sleeps poorly and has a copy of Kafka's diaries 1920-1923 on his toilet tank?"
"Wait, what?"
Click.
"Hello? Hello?"
