ENTRY DESCRIPTION
'I will give my talk on Tuesday. On Monday I get a tryout at the house of an old man I know, attended by some people, among them Freud. I make a few false starts, but finally I get it right and say, convinced that this is true, "Everywhere where people dream they think that they are in an entirely real world." An old man to my right shakes his head vehemently. "That is not true," he exclaims. "I don't agree either," Freud adds. I am flabbergasted, realizing how true I thought this reality to be. I am flustered. People begin to leave. I sit back on my chair again. The room is now almost empty, except for Freud and some stragglers. "Well, I must be going," Freud says. I still want to talk to him. "So, Dr. Freud, you don't believe that the dream world is real?" "No," he replies. "While dreaming you never reach the boy. And you'll always stay at a distance from the things that you are afraid of." "That is true," I say, "but that doesn't make it less real." "Well," Freud responds, "that's not the case. You're wrong." This old man Freud, who doesn't look like Sigmund Freud--his face is much rounder--speaks with certainty. He wipes my argument away with absolute authority. I say, almost desperate, that everywhere in the world where I've discussed dreams, people always considered the dream environment real while dreaming. "Well," he concludes, "research the dream reports of one hundred and one dreamers and you'll see that it is not true." Then he leaves.'

Robert Bosnak: A dream analyst (from DreamBank)

AUTHOR
Sophie-Luise Passow (*1994, Vienna) studied photography in the class of German artist Gabriele Rothemann and graphics and printmaking with Swedish artist Jan Svenungsson at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
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Urte Laukaityte (*1992, Vilnius) was educated at the University of Cambridge for her BA, attained her MSc at the University of Edinburgh, and is a PhD researcher at UC Berkeley. Urte spent the year 2022/23 as a Solitude fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude.
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Ursa Majeure (*2023, Stuttgart) was born Athena-style from the combined heads of a two-part organism wandering the forests around a 1700s schloss. If experience were summative, she would have a three-decade long photographic career by now, despite being birthed in January of last year. She has grand plans for her future as a photographer, including experimenting with different techniques—state-of-the-art as well as historical. A crucial feature of her practice is the symbiosis of photography and text, or, more broadly, the fusion of art and science—the perennial holy grail of contemporality.

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