Alison Bechdel

riiiiight, so stuff like “You were gonna fix the tear [in my pants], which maybe means tear [as in crying], too! You’re healing me!” is not at all tendentious and stupid

the point of this scene is that bechdel is providing a spurious reading of her own dream and feeling proud of herself for having Got analysis and then is totally undercut by what her therapist says to her so, yeah, you didn't read that bit right, are there any other bits you would like help with

Fine, you love this specious and padded book so much it has turned you into a condescending prat. I forgot this wasnt ILB where people can discuss stuff like this without getting personal. Bye.

now i kinda want to read this

I thought the actual mother/daughter scenes in this one were great, but the whole Winnicott thing is just too much... Even if Bechdel left the reader some room to interpret things differently than the Bechdel character in the book, the fact remains that so much of the comic is devoted to Winnicot's writings (literally), and to her trying to show how it applies to her life, and if you agree with Winnicot I guess that's fine, but if you're someone like me who feels psychoanalysis is mostly bullshit, then those bits in the comic read mostly read like a overtly long fan-letter, i.e. boring. I thought Bechdel's previous book was a bit dry and boring too, but at least that one had viewed her dad through multiple (literary and non-literary lenses), whereas this one had just the one lens, so it felt largely like psychonanalysis fan gushing.

i saw the musical at The Public and it was admirably executed and superbly acted; they perfectly recreated her world in the book

Fun Home musical now has 12 Tony nominations, including for all 3 performers playing A.B.

Terrible Alison Bechdel cover for Woolf ahoy:
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