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The Words to Say It (1975)

by Marie Cardinal

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This work explores the author's personal experience of psychoanalysis. It reveals her truamatic childhood and institutionalization, followed by her escape to the quiet cul-de-sac where her psychoanalysist lived. There, for many years, she made the journey towards recovery through Freudian analysis.
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I had to send this back to the library because while it is brilliant (what I've read so far), it was far too close to the bone for me to be able to cope with it back in February when I was going through what the author went through.

That probably sounds rather silly, but there you have it.

I'm sure I'll come back to it in time! ( )
  jselliott | Dec 5, 2014 |
Un de ces romans qui agrippent, fascinent, ne vous laissent de repos que lorsque vous posez les yeux sur les derniers mots. Il s'ouvre sur une sombre impasse pavée que la narratrice arpente trois fois par semaine, au rythme de l'analyse qu'elle décide d'entreprendre. Sa détresse est telle que les médecins et leurs prescriptions ne peuvent, n'ont jamais rien pu pour elle. La solution est ailleurs, dans les méandres de son passé qu'elle se décide à forer, au risque d'endurer au début des souffrances plus dévastatrices, semble-t-il, que le mal. Alors, peu à peu filtre la lumière. Celle que la conscience met à jour, réduisant l'angoisse, anémiant la névrose, acculant le silence aux mots. Ces Mots pour le dire sont précisément l'un des plus grands succès de cet ex-professeur de philosophie, journaliste à L'Express et à Elle. Il s'agit d'un cas vécu, l'expérience de la souffrance aux confins de la folie, animée cependant d'une vitalité, d'une force de caractère et d'une clairvoyance exemplaires. --Laure Anciel
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This work explores the author's personal experience of psychoanalysis. It reveals her truamatic childhood and institutionalization, followed by her escape to the quiet cul-de-sac where her psychoanalysist lived. There, for many years, she made the journey towards recovery through Freudian analysis.

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