Haunted by parents
"In this book the eminent psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold looks at why some people are resistant to change, even when it seems to promise a change for the better
Nonfiction
xi, 257 pages ; 22 cm
9780300116106, 0300116101
69672816
A literary example of haunting : Dr. Benjamin Spock
A clinical illustration of some of my main themes
Knowing, change, and good and bad expectations
Beginnings and Wordsworth's "immortality ode"
Change means loss : spring and summer must become winter
The myth of Demeter and Persephone
Another dream of death in a garden
A clinical and a literary example : Edna St. Vincent Millay
A second literary example : Leonard Woolf
A third literary example : Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov
On listening, knowing, and owning
Gardens, unweeded gardens, and the garden of Eden : death and transience
"The promise" and Ibsen's A doll's house and Hedda Gabler
What do I know?