When dreams save life through meaning

By Csilla Kemenczei
English

To keep her father’s love, Ophelie, a woman of sixty, was frozen in an image of eternal youth. As a results, she remained locked in a sort of invisible death, living a false life, a phantom life. She was lide a plastic doll, arrested at the Oedipal stage her development. The death of her husband rescued her from the puerile adolescent controlling her actions. However, once free of the teenagers, she began to age rapidly, putting her in danger of death. Thanks to work on her dreams, her heart was regenerated: the breast of a man-bird, the figure of the cosmic father, was ripped open. Ophélie was then able to be the form of a very beautiful, wrinkled old woman.

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