18+ Elena Kostyleva: The project of this text grew out as a final essay for the course “Post-Soviet Sexuality” at the Roza Palace of Culture in St. Petersburg, which Valeria Levchuk and I have been teaching since the fall of 2019. One of the course sessions was devoted to hysteria, the “female subject,” and Freud’s case of Dora. Here is a text by Zhanna Dolgova, continuing the tradition of feminist texts about Dora.

A labyrinth for a woman or where the man disappeared... - Who are you: sound, voice, ghost? As if in the weightlessness of peace and love. I have been there more than once; again in Her; I feel big changes; so new, everything new begins for everyone. I'm back and I'm new! I can think, listen, think. I hear speech, singing, bass and overtones. In the deaf it’s like BU-BU-BU; new, familiar atmosphere. I listen to what they say: sound, voice, ghost - Who are you?!

What I like then it gets woven into me. What's not to like then it sticks to me. (Eg Triyu)