Psychoanalytic Fictions

Laura Gonzalez has a blog on psychoanalysis and art (http://lauragonzalez.co.uk/) and this morning she reviewed Vienna Triangle. Besides calling it a masterful account of psychoanalysis and the human weaknesses of its practitioners, I was delighted and amused by the way she identified with my heroine, Kate's ambivilent relationship with her mother. Laura found herself "perplexed at the accuracy of her (Webster's) description of encounters I have had with my own mother...the different standards within which I judge her, the guilt, the strange love that gets manifested as aggression or exasperation" to the point of having to put the book down and calm herself before going on. Having been a patient for long years, it is particularly gratifying to have someone see me as not just talking about analysis with mastery but actually doing it. Thank you Laura!
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Published on February 25, 2009 10:27 Tags: fiction, freud, psychoanalysis
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