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13: The Journalist and the Analyst: On Janet Malcolm feat. Sam Adler-Bell

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Regressive Effect of Journalists and Biographers

The journalist encounter seems to have the same regressive effect on a subject as the psychoanalytic encounter. And this is, you know, it's, I think that's true, or at least the sense of alienation or discomfort when you see your own story being repeated in print by someone else. The journalism like biography is a kind of theft. Journalists and biographers are burglars who break in, rifle your drawers, and stay and redecorate. If you're unlucky enough to be their subject, i.e. the homeowner, your preferences will soon cease to matter.

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