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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 10591, member: 25&quot;]It&#039;s a heart rending tale of catatonia and delusion, and the pioneering&nbsp; work of the Viennese Dr. Marionette and his object displacement therapy, whereby he transferred the self consciousness of the beautiful but &quot;mad as a box of frogs&quot; countess Elena&nbsp; Mussorgsky into the body of a doll, bringing her into a fugue state whereby she externalised her persona into the doll. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unhappily,although out of the original catatonic state, and responsive to outside influences as long as they addressed her doll-body, not the flesh that her soul cringed from, she formed an emotional attachment with the doctor&#039;s &#039;doctor doll&#039; that he used in the therapy.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a few words, the case was altered, but not really improved. It took some really inventive work with a sock puppet, (using finer and finer weave socks) by the doctor, to remedy the situation, and because all the more sensitive parts of these old medical treatises are written in Latin (See Sacher-Masoch,&nbsp; Krafft-Ebing and others)&nbsp; I cannot divulge the details to a mixed audience, including some possibly of tender years. </p><p>Suffice it to be said, the unfortunate coincidence of a visit by an inspector from the Viennese Quack Society, coupled with some especially vigorous and noisy sock puppet therapy was enough to promote a scandal that drove them both to a secluded part of the Black Forest, where they eked out a meagre living carving wooden dolls, the living made especially meagre by the Countess&#039;s intransigent refusal to part with any&nbsp; of what she sincerely regarded as her &#039;family&#039; of carved moppets. Without Dr. Marionette&#039;s sock puppets and their fan base among the local womenfolk, they might well have starved.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a happy story, without a happy ending, and it was only by&nbsp; coincidence of seeing that picture here that I was reminded of those days in Vienna so long ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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