Re-Writing Freud

Simon Morris, artist, and Christine Morris, creative technologist, Re-Writing Freud, 2005;  iPhone / iPad app edition, 2011.

The iPad app edition of Re-Writing Freud is currently on view at the Beinecke Library (ground floor, North side) in Psyche & Muse: Creative Entanglements with the Science of the Soul. Using your finger, you randomly re-write Sigmund Freud’s famous book, The Interpretation of Dreams, allowing you to see his text in a dreamlike state.

In Re-Writing Freud, British artist Simon Morris collaborated with creative technologist Christine Morris to re-write The Interpretation of Dreams by feeding the text into a computer program designed to randomly select and re-order the words, thus recreating the book. The artists have remade this work as an iPhone/iPad application allowing an interactive reprocessing of Freud’s 223,704-word text. This project, and two related book projects featured in Dr. Froyd: Psychoanalysis in the Popular Imagination located on the Library Mezzanine, use Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams to explore the ability of art and text to “disrupt the existing order of things.” For more information about this project, visit Christine Morris’s description of the project: Re-Writing Freud.

Snobbery and Decay

Masquerade ball : Rustic tableau, Paris, 1931

A view of Lake Ontario with a broken yacht, men and railroad tracks against the shoreline. undated.

MARVELous Beinecke

Pages from Paul Tobin and Ig Guara, Marvel Adventures: Black Widow and The Avengers, #18, featuring the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Beinecke MS 408 (the Voynich Manuscript). Please note: the generic librarian featured should not be confused with Beinecke Library Early Modern Collections Curator Kathryn James.

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Valentine

[Fanny and Emil carving heart in tree].

Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, trekked with his wife Fanny through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s. Call number: WA Photos 240.

Searching for Peace of Mind?

Psychoanalysis, NY: Tiny Tot Comics, c1955, volumes 1-4 (call number: Za Zp956); featured in the Beinecke Library’s current exhibition: Psyche & Muse: Creative Entanglements with the Science of the Soul. For information about exhibition-related events, visit: Psyche & Muse Events.

The Sun-Cure

A view of a tuberculosis sanitarium for children at Groslay (Northern France) during World War I.
From the Edith Wharton Papers.

Cart | Horse

Mexican cart in the courtyard or garden of the “Ramona” house in San Diego. Photograph taken by  Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1929 Sept.

One horse picketed. Photograph taken by Walter McClintock, undated