She said: "It was like an
anxiety dream as everybody was staring at me."
The very embodiment of Freud's theory of the primary processes of the uncon-scious--condensation and displacement--the narrative of Consumed is an endlessly metastasizing, collective
anxiety dream that opens out from and collapses in on Celestine's possibly cannibalized body: more specifically, her problematic left breast, around which a bevy of malfunctioning, misshapen, and diseased penises Circulate.
His recurring
anxiety dream? He's standing in front of high school students in his psychology class without a stitch of clothing on.
Staged as an
anxiety dream, it marks the beginning of Opie's search for a more settled existence.
On the day of the performance, he awoke from the kind of
anxiety dream that commonly afflicts performers.
The amateur's entry into the lions' den of the professionals turned out to be the ultimate
anxiety dream. Stockdale seemed to have fallen through layers of unconsciousness onto a kleig-lit stage.
I have had an
anxiety dream where I get to the studio and I can't find it so I have to dig through a forest to get there, or I get there and none of the controls work.
In "An Actor's Nightmare," a man finds himself in a theatrical
anxiety dream, having wandered onstage in a play he doesn't know and finding out he is to be the star.
No such problems for the horrible hopefuls again last week though as a different Lorraine, the one who looks like a hastily constructed waxwork of Olive from On The Buses, ran round rousing them from a collective
anxiety dream about stuffing crisp 20s inside the thong of a grey-bearded middle-aged man who's doing exotic dances for them.
As disassociated as an
anxiety dream and elusive as the horror it references.