tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4902682351226086885..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: A Novelist Does Not Want TherapyStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62303688597019193492015-07-03T10:34:19.520-07:002015-07-03T10:34:19.520-07:00Alice Miller, in The Drama of the Gifted Child, ex...Alice Miller, in The Drama of the Gifted Child, explains that many successful persons, including artists, also tend to experience depression. Thus converting personal pain into professional success or "great art" is only a partly effective distraction for these persons. A good example is the woman who wants children, not because she has integrated her desire and capacity to love them (because she was loved as a child or figures out how she wanted to be loved as a child), but as a symbol of her adult status, "See, I have children, a man brings me money and bought me a house, so I'm a grown-up female!" Meanwhile some fathers and mothers play successful roles and make their children miserable. These children often become deviants or artists who can communicate their drama without betraying their parents by telling "the real story." A person with the capacity to decode signs and symbols will eventually begin to understand whether he or she is actually being loved in a given context or is once again being used as a prop in the drama of a gifted child, or trying to use others as props within one's own drama.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-78962227214316591202015-07-03T08:33:31.880-07:002015-07-03T08:33:31.880-07:00Doubtless, this helps make her the darling of cert...Doubtless, this helps make her the darling of certain members of the literary clique. In a world where merit no longer matters, people are promoted for reasons that have to do with political correctness. But, of course, that does not mean that she's a bad novelist. And it does not mean that she's wrong about therapy.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-7417410922352910832015-07-03T07:54:04.248-07:002015-07-03T07:54:04.248-07:00I think I know why Hanya is the darling of the lit...I think I know why Hanya is the darling of the literary circuit.<br /><br />http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/05/a-little-life-definitive-gay-novel/394436/<br /><br />gay, gay, gayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com