From another comment column: "When someone is as talented with words as you are, you have a lot of potential on this track to build and offer force fields in interactions. I notice the effects immediately when I read, of course. Have you also made voice recordings?"

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"These are very special love prospects for the two of them," says M. "Let's see if this old wooden ship will carry us safely through our waves," smiles Persephone and surprises the new Language Master with an invitation to a new variant... -*'These (Roman) emperors are none of my business ... I'm only interested in the fact that they have become Tacitus' text.' Heiner Müller

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"My existence is different, I only exist when I write, I am nothing when I don't write, I am completely alien to myself, I have fallen out of myself when I don't write... It is a strange, bizarre way of existing, antisocial, lonely, damned, there is something damned about it." Ingeborg Bachmann

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„I'd rather have the prayers of a good woman in a fight than half a dozen hot guns: she's talking to Headquarters." Frank Boardman aka Pistol Pete Eaton (1860 -1958)

Mimetic Objection

In Freud’s world, all remains restrained, everything suspended. An ambivalent hostess allows him to intellectually horn the virile competitor. For Emilie, the Habsburg cultural veterans gathered at her Attersee garden table are attention donors, trophies in the struggle against mediocrity. Freud’s meticulously collected, anecdotal “examples of promise” provide entertainment in the summer retreat. He observed the “disturbing influence of something outside intended speech,” like an unconscious thought intruding seemingly at random.

He tells friends about his daughter Anna, still a child, unaware that she will one day command her own gravitational field—a kingdom of advanced selfhood. Anna “makes a nasty face” biting into an apple. Freud counters the mimetic objection with rhyme:

“The monkey is quite amusing, especially when he eats the apple.”

(Why not is/isst?) Freud never moves past Apfe. He lectures on the word breach: a contamination of monkey and apple (compromise formation), or anticipation of the prepared apple.

A Viennese woman masks family criticism with a compliment, yet defense emerges in the promise. Freud’s patient says what she means, not what she admits: “One must give them that—they are all stingy” (instead of spirited).

Similarly, a tourist in the Dolomites prioritizes pleasure over deprivation, denying her own experience. Comfort arrives only once the “sweaty” garments are removed. She lists blouse and shirt, holding back trousers—yet they slip: “But then the trousers come anyway.” Freud interprets trousers as a home defilement. The phonetic proximity of Geist and Geiz, Hose and Haus, sends me into a playful associative race. Freud appears as a pleasantly indiscreet, vividly imaginative narrator.

“The good relation between the name Rattlesnake and Cleopatra creates, for (a patient), a momentary limitation of judgment.”

A dream of a child deciding “to end his life by rattlesnake bite” leads Freud to conclude: the child’s statement masks a desire to become a famous actress. Even a worn-out Wilbrandt tragedy (Arria and Messalina) gains meaning: Messalina covers a feared misalliance of the patient’s brother.