F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
― Brad C., Saturday, 4 August 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
Pat Barker, Regeneration, about the pioneering use of psychoanalysis to treat shell-shocked first world war soldiers. Based on real events and a very compelling mix of history, psychology, and politics. There are two sequels but they're less historically grounded, more fictional, heavier on the psychoanalysis. I don't rate them as highly but ymmv.
― home, home and deranged (ledge), Monday, 6 August 2018 09:16 (five years ago) link
Jonathan Lethem: GUN, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC (1994): Freudians are the equivalent of Jehovah's Witnesses.
― the pinefox, Monday, 6 August 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
PKD, The Simulacra
― alimosina, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
That looks wonderful! Will buy today if I can find it. Was PKD big into psychoanalysis in general? From the synopsis of this, it sounds quite Winnicottian. I've only read Do Androids...
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Was PKD big into psychoanalysis in general
the short answer is sort of
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
he was certainly interested in psychology and that's reflected in the work. And while characters are always psychoanalyzing each other, I can't think of a single appearance of an actual professional psychoanalyst, and it's p clear that he generally distrusted it as a sham, or a racket to be manipulated.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
Haha ah. I guess that’d fit with the whole anti-psychiatry movement of around that time.
There are way fewer positive depictions. Regeneration (as mentioned above) is quite an anomaly in that regard.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:55 (five years ago) link
the whole anti-psychiatry movement of around that time
in sf, this obviously intersects with John W. Campbell/L. Ron Hubbard/Scientology
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
If I remember right, Dr. Egon Superb is depicted sympathetically.
― alimosina, Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
Menaker, The Treatment
― alimosina, Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
(^ first half)
― alimosina, Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
the authority figures in some of anna kavan's fiction seem to be informed by her dealings with psychiatry etc... she also collaborated with one on a piece of fiction, though haven't read that. actually found my copy of asylum piece in the psychology section of a bookshop (maybe the only work where she deals explicitly with this?)
― no lime tangier, Friday, 10 August 2018 05:45 (five years ago) link
I bought the first book in this thread because it was the only one of these that the bookshop stocked, and the preface amused me and answered the questions I had reading the blurb (What psychoanalyst would ever recommend writing a diary?). I'm excited to start reading fiction and not pure psychoanalysis in two days' time when my course ends.
― tangenttangent, Saturday, 11 August 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
Not a novel, but https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18888853-a-young-girl-s-diary is very interesting: a diary of a young Viennese woman published under Freud's auspices
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 12 August 2018 08:02 (five years ago) link
It seems that the comic form is more frequently exploring the therapeutic encounter than other types of fiction, perhaps because of the unparalleled way it can depict multiple levels of internal and external communication. It's a fairly difficult discipline to capture...
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link