“Lacan locates the unconscious, the sublime nexus of all our psyches, in Baltimore in the morning. The unconscious, he tells us, is like dawn — that threshold between sleep and waking. It’s a pulsating neon sign, ticking time, advertising enjoyment. It is intermittent and fading, present and absent. The unconscious is like Baltimore, with its sublime oscillations between tender and tough, wounded and resilient, swaggering and fearful, Northern and Southern, black and white.
According to Freud and Lacan, there is no universal “dream book,” meant to provide facile interpretations to every dream image. Neither is there an easy decoder ring for the psychology of Baltimore. Every resident must tell his and her own story of the psychology of this place. Yet we all awake each day into the unconscious that is Baltimore in the early morning, a sublime place, both horrifying and beautiful.” – Teresa Mendez, Daniel Buccino