Task

Freud had taught her that her recurrent dreams were nothing but a manifestation of her recurrent fears and shortcomings. That was very fine but being in possession of such knowledge didn't make her recurrent fears go away. Usually those dreams had no particular feature which could make them different from anyone else's dreams. They were variations on the theme of loss and death. Oh yes, she often dreamed about all kinds of horrible deaths. It was only on rarer occasions that a less typical recurrent dream would visit her in her sleep. She imagined then being the last physicist alive and faced with the task of having to build the foundations of all branches of physics from scratch. Despite she was a renowned physicist she didn't even have the courage to imagine how to get the task going, let alone how far she could reach, she was blocked by the heaviest feeling of insecurity she could ever imagine.