A Dialogue on Love
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080702922X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In A Dialogue on Love, she applies her skills to the analysis of a far more personal text: herself. --Julia Steinmetz. Through these issues, Sedgwick comes to a highly personal, yet expansive, definition of sexuality inclusive of fantasy, autoeroticism, and cultural intimacy. She places her therapist's notes in dialogue with her own words, which take the 17-century Japanese form of haibun, traditionally reserved for travel narratives; a description of another work structured in this way applies equally to her own writing:
Moving portrait of psychoanalysis Andrew N. Carpenter Sedgwick, the doyenne of the queer studies movement in literary studies, avoids the sentimentality and sensational voyeurism that mar many recountings of psychotherapy. Her intimate narrative-written during therapy after cancer treatment-provides a moving and honest account of what it means to discuss with a stranger one's deepest anxieties about illness, mortality, dependence. "Inspiring and thought-provoking memoir" according to A Customer. This may be one of those rare occasions where the publisher's blurbs are actually accurate, reflecting (as do the author's comments above) the simple but profound pleasures to be found here. Sedgwick is famous (or infamous, depending on your politics) for her ground-breaking work in literary and cultural theory, especially her role in forging the vital and influential field of. Some things are better left in one's own closets Let me begin by expressing sorrow for Sedgwick's illness and admiration for her contributions to queer theory (which are real). Having said that, I nonetheless thought this book somewhat of an embarrassment and surely it only has been published because of Sedgwick's currency as a hot scholar. Her insights are no more remarkable than those gained by just about everyone I know w
Although not without pain, their improvised relationship is as unexpectedly pleasurable as her writing is unconventional: Sedgwick combines dialogue, verse, and even her therapist's notes to explore her interior life--and delivers and delicate and tender account of how we arrive at love.. Resisting easy responses to issues of dependence, desire, and mortality, she warily commits to a male therapist who shares little of her cultural and intellectual world. When she begins therapy for depression after breast cancer treatment, the author brings with her an extraordinarily open and critical mind, but also shyness about revealing herself