Between Freud and a Naked Woman by Bruno Bosteels

From Politzer, who talks of "drama" to Freud and Lacan who speak of theatre, stage, mise en scène, machinery, theatrical genre, metteur en scène, etc., there is all the distance between the spectator who takes himself for the theatre-and the theatre itself. - Louis Althusser, "Freud and Lacan"

A series of questions immediately emerge: Why Freud? Why put Freud on stage? Why do so through his only extended case history devoted to a woman, whose real name, we have since found out, was Ida Bauer? And, above all: Why do so now? Or rather, why now, again?