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David Woodard’s September of 2007 Dreamachine exhibition at Freud’s Dreams Museum (LINK), in the childhood home of Lou Salomé, yielded record attendance for the East-European psychoanalytic axis—exceeded in vastness of bodycount only by his closing lecture, which examined the role of tree worship in the history of religion and the concomitant role of flickering sunlight in the development of the primitive human brain (Oct. 2: LINK / Oct. 1: PDF / Sept. 28: LINK / Sept. 26: LINK / Sept. 23: LINK). The Dreamachine on display was kindly lent to Freud’s Dreams Museum by the distinguished German collector Alexander Schröder.

Interpreting Alexander Schröder's Dreamachine, Freud's Dreams Museum (Photo 2007 C. Chan)

Within the motorized lampbase, one of artist Martina Schumacher’s Circle Mirror Pictures (LINK), winsomely rendered in miniature (above), served dreamers proletarian (JPG), tribal (JPG), and normal (JPG), at 83 RPM.

In September of 2008, near Berlin, the essay "Ernst Jünger in Leningrad" (PDF), which concerns a hypothetical visit by Jünger (1895-1998) to the Dreamachine exhibition at Freud's Dreams Museum, was read with other featured essays, to a sardine listenership, followed by debate, at Schloss Neuhardenberg's launch (LINK) for Bunter Staub. Ernst Jünger im Gegenlicht (LINK), a handsome anthology edited by Alexander Pschera and published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Jünger's removal to the realm of celestial rewards / Master Great Cultural Figuredom.