Invisible Women

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The Great Freud has dreamed of a woman; he describes her to Lou Andreas:

“When she wakes in the morning, she brushes cleans her teeth while facing north, and it is from this direction that she derives her arrivals and departures for her day. She is a woman who believes in neither fate nor free will. She has a beauty that could blind a man, if only her wit were not so toxic, and her limbs are fixtures to be arranged on whim. Her farewells take place in silence, but with tears and malicious grins. She is constantly cold and wears a shawl over her head. She has many lovers and her only husband she will not touch.

“Set out, explore every corner and crevice, and seek this woman,” Sigmund Freud tells to Lou. “Then come back and tell me if my dream corresponds to reality.”

“Forgive me, my friend, there is no doubt that sooner or later, I will leave you in search of this woman,” Lou Andreas tells him, “but I shall not come back to tell you about her. The woman you seek has one simple secret: she knows only beginnings and can never understand endings.”