Invisible Women

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When Sigmund Freud and Lou Andreas first began corresponding, he asked her for an image of her likeness in the form of a photograph. The Great Freud asked in the meekest manner, but Lou Andreas could hardly decline his offer. When she did provide him with her photograph, she prefaced it with the acknowledgement that although the picture captured her image, there was no connection between the still figure encased in sepia and herself. In that way, there would always remain permutations of self, never the same woman, the perpetual shape-shifter.