Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
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What I've Never Done Before
When being a graduate in english literature, i had to get clinical experience before they would accept me for training as a psychoanalyst. So i wrote back and said, if i became a nurse, would that count as clinical experience? And then i got just an ordinary nursing job, wearing black tights and black lace up shoes and little white cap and a black belt and white coat. But i could only afford that because i had to pay for my analysis as a trainy analysis at the same time. The church where it was hung originally was one just beside where i actually nursed on friday nights, s Saturday nights and sunday nights. That's where er sculpture had been.
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