Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
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The House Is Part of Her Art
I heard that she had gutted the kitchen right afterwards, and that that was somehow symbolic of her her rage against the domestication of women. Her kitchen, i think, what? There's nothing there. She just uses one, one ring to cook herself enough food. A, and it's really what she did in reversing her experience of being trapped as a housewife. In thoseearly paintings of of a woman in in and actual house with arms and legs coming out of the house wand she said afterwards, later, that she wanted to make the house look after her,. And that's exactly what it does. The house is part of her work. It's incredible. I've seen
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