Synopsis - "When an artist sees a desperate women through his window, he finds it is just an illusion. Or is it a vision of the future?" Freud stated that "dreams are the royal road to the unconscious".
Just an illusion? It could be the future if it isn't managed. Current thinking would argue this. It is more likely this vision was part of his unconscious mind and he may have had a living connection to this woman. She could have been a novelist and he was seeing the things she was writing about. His painting Jeannie may have been an attempt at depicting this scene. His anxiety grew worse and he began to project parts of the woman's trauma onto Jeannie. They argued and she left. The anxiety then caused him to dissociate the event out the window. He was distraught having lost this opportunity to catch this problem and ran next door to see if it was there with someone else in order to retrieve it but it wasn't there. The writer had become external to himself or as some Jewish people call it; she was in Bedlam. Clearly the artist had a sensitivity to life and women.
