![]() ![]() ![]() I have tremendous admiration for his iceberg theory (that I now view as an elaborate written form of repression) but his misogyny remains unforgivable. ![]() Second, as most people who have spoken to me at length know, I have a complicated love-hate relationship with Hemingway. There's also shades of the psychodynamic theories of Adler and Horneye in the character's basic anxiety/hostility and interpersonal maladaptations. I'm reexamining Alexander Portnoy's neurotic battle with his Jewish identity through a Jungian lens. Roth employed the concepts of free association, repression, unresolved conflicts, the ego and superego's struggle over the id, memory distortions, slips of the tongue, etc. While I'd apprehended its stream-of-consciousness prose style, the confessional framing device and the Oedipal undercurrent, I missed the other pervasive Freudian themes that now add a whole new layer of depth to the book and make me appreciate its cleverness even more. I'm almost embarrassed now by my 2016 review of that book. Indeed, this book has given me fresh perspective on much of the media that I've consumed.įirst and foremost: Philip Roth's scandalous yet hilarious book, Portnoy's Complaint. I especially liked that the authors interspersed various historical and cultural titbits. Having to study and commit parts of this to my fickle memory often made this tiresome, but if I were to ignore that aspect, I quite enjoyed the conversational tone of the text which lent an easy flow to the reading experience. It is definitely no more than an introduction, the advantage of that being its consequent universal appeal. Also, true to its title, it's so superficial that it has to be supplemented with additional reading. I es As a textbook, it's quite vague and difficult to reproduce. ![]() As a textbook, it's quite vague and difficult to reproduce. ![]()
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