Beste Emma,
Je bent een anekdote in het leven van anderen, Freud, Fliess en Masson, en dus gaat ongeveer je hele lemma op wikipedia over theorieën en praktijken en ruzies van anderen. In mijn privéwikipedia schrijft Eduardo Galeano jouw lemma. Zie hoe hij schrijft over Nellie Bly. Je kan er wel om lachen, denk ik.
The Mother of Female Journalists
(November 14)
On this morning in 1889, Nellie Bly set off.
Jules Verne did not believe that this pretty little woman could circle the globe by herself in less than eighty days.
But Nellie put her arms around the world in seventy-two, all the while publishing article after article about what she heard and observed.
This was not the young reporter’s first exploit, nor would it be the last.
To write about Mexico, she became so Mexican that the startled government of Mexico deported her.
To write about factories, she worked the assembly line.
To write about prisons, she got herself arrested for robbery.
To write about mental asylums, she feigned insanity so well that the doctors declared her certifiable. Then she went on to denounce the psychiatric treatments she endured, as reason enough for anyone to go crazy.
In Pittsburgh when Nellie was twenty, journalism was a man’s thing.
That was when she committed the insolence of publishing her first articles.
Thirty years later, she published her last, dodging bullets on the front lines of World War I.
stem: imhd
perspectief: bij het lezen van In the Freud archives van Janet Malcolm
titel: my own private wikipedia
bron: irma, elke dag een bericht (2016)
mopw: meerstemmige encyclopedie / freud