![\"STERN](\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/files\/2014\/02\/STERN-GRETE.-Sue\u00f1o-61-1950-Amor-sin-Ilusi\u00f3n.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nby Andrea Rosen, Curator of\u00a0Under the Surface.<\/em><\/p>\n Sigmund Freud\u2019s revolutionary theories about the interpretation of dreams resonated with pop culture as well as avant-garde culture. Starting in 1948, Idilio<\/i>, a weekly women\u2019s magazine in Argentina, ran a column titled \u201cPsychoanalysis Will Help You,\u201d for which readers sent in their dreams to be analyzed. Each column was accompanied by a photomontage illustration of the dream created by Grete Stern, a German-born photographer and graphic designer who had relocated to Buenos Aires. In Dream 28<\/i>, alternatively titled \u201cLove Without Illusion,\u201d a well-dressed, middle-class woman recoils from\u2014or perhaps surveys cautiously\u2014a masculine figure with a tortoise\u2019s head, pointed mouth wide open and ready to snap. Stern\u2019s images wittily captured how the conflicting demands of domesticity, femininity, and sexuality infected a woman\u2019s psyche.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Andrea Rosen, Curator of\u00a0Under the Surface. Sigmund Freud\u2019s revolutionary theories about the interpretation of dreams resonated with pop culture as well as avant-garde culture. Starting in 1948, Idilio, a weekly women\u2019s magazine in Argentina, ran a column titled \u201cPsychoanalysis Will Help You,\u201d for which readers sent in their dreams to be analyzed. Each column […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[12,14,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-91","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-curatorial-label","7":"category-dream","8":"tag-grete-stern","9":"tag-photomontage","10":"tag-technical-manipulation","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/surrealist-photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Image details:<\/h6>\n
Grete Stern (German, 1904\u20131999)
\nDream 28<\/i>, 1951
\ngelatin silver print
\nCopyright Grete Stern, courtesy of Nailya Alexander Gallery, NY<\/h6>\n