Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Übertragung (II)

[We continue the exciting saga that was begun here:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/12/ubertragung-i.html ]


A:  Also nun gut!  You were about to tell me the part of the dream you left out.
B (motionless; silence)
A:  Such as for instance … why you entered that room in the first place.
B: Ah.
A: Yes:  “Ah.”
B: Well…
A: Yes?
B (blurting it out, after an effort) : It was a room in a safe-house. I was on the run.  For something I’d done.
A (maintains a silence that implies:  Go on.)
B (stiffening a bit; more manfully):  It was something … something I’m not very proud of.
A (a wry smile):  I see that, on the contrary, you are unconsciously very proud of it indeed.  But that can wait. -- And the girl?
B (subdued):  She was my controller, in a former life.  And now … now I was hers.
(Silence reigns for a while on both sides;  each seems to be consulting his thoughts.)
A (softly, tentatively -- but expectantly):  And … the Lugar?
B (a decided silence this time;  he crosses his arms over his chest.)
A (sighs):  I detect some resistance.  Very well -- we try the Free Association test.  I say the Probewort, and you tell me, without hesitating, the very first word that pops into your head.  Holding back nothing.
B (nods)
A: White.
B:  Army.
A: …  Black
B (this time he does hesitate a bit, as if before the wealth of surging associations; then stammers):  HundredsRedistributionOps
A (nodding, narrows his eyes):  Ah… haa….  Now perhaps we take it up a notch.
Urysohn.
B (loudly, distinctly, biting off each syllable): Tychonoff !
A (pauses, pondering.  Then, softly):  Riiee…mann …..
B (rises abruptly from the couch, and, without turning round, strides to the hatstand to collect his cloak):  This session is over.

[No words are spoken, as garments are donned and writing-materials are put away.  Then:]
A:  Dennoch scheint mir der Traum  weiterer Aufklärung bedürftig. -- Also, bis bald.


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