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The Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith

There's a patricia highsmith novel called the cry of the owl. She is a great writer, not a very good person, which is true ofmost, most great writers. So i think if we'd think of psychoanalysis as a private thing, it's just about me. But isn't the point that psychoanalysis forces you to make your phantasies public? Even your most disgusting fantasies have to be aired publicly. They can't be just kept as this private nature preserve. I mean, and it's such a great anti capitalist idea, right? Because capital society has no problem with nature preserves and parks and all this crowd but the idea that the nature preserved would the

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