Freud’s Dream of the Inkless Pen and Faulty Samovar: An Emotional Re-reading of Defeat and the Restoration of Psychological Authority in Daily Life
Documented Introduction: This analytical article examines one of Freud’s most personal and significant dreams, recounted in The Interpretation of Dreams: Freud dreams of writing with a pen whose ink has run out, or which draws an extremely faint line. In the same scene, a samovar (a Russian kettle) sits beside him—an instrument usually providing boiling…