Status Updates From The Examined Life: How We L...

This book is a series of short case vignettes from Grosz’s clinical practice as a psychoanalyst. It’s cool to see how that theory (though it has evolved since Freud) actually has real, logical, apparently fruitful applications — contrary to the bad rap I think Freud gets today for some of his more outlandish ideas.

“Experience has taught me that our childhoods leave in us stories like this — stories we never found a way to voice, because no one helped us to find the words. When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us - we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.”