Posted by trouble on March 22, 2002, at 12:06:15
Hey, good morning,
There are a few books my psychologist doesn't want me having to do with, which seems only fair, since there are a couple psychologists my books don't want me getting involved with either.
No one's ever policed my reading material before, much less w/my best interests at heart, and I like the attention, but I have to wonder if he's on the right track here.
He frowns specifically on Jean Paul Sartre, I had to read some Sartre last year for a class, and my initial impression was wow this guy is so consumed by misery he wants to make everyone else just as unhappy and I liked that, so I went in and told my doc I just ordered Bein' and Nothingness and he was silent for a few minutes then finally replied that he didn't think this was a good time for existentialism.
Then he nixed Michel Foucault, by sharing his own college experience about taking a class on Foucault and losing his optimism, started hating, grew cranky and despondent, then decided he'd have to drop Foucault like a hot potato if he was ever going to be okay again. I told him he sounded like a weak man, this being the same psyhcologist I told y'all I never said a mean word to, but on paper that remark's looking role model bitchy like role model Cher, except Cher would never talk down to a man who wasn't irrevocably beneath her.
Thing is, he's NOT crippled intellectually, but you'd never know that at first glance. He's balding, clean, looks and dresses 100% square, no mystique, an absolute dead ringer for Dr. Phil, (who he hates, yay!). But he sits there quoting Patti Smith, chapter and verse, and Baudelaire, Neitzcshe, Kurdt Cocaine, Jackson Pollack, The Communist Manifesto, right off the top of his head man, chapter and verse. It's eerie. He looks like such a manicured lawn I'm having a helluva time putting his deal together.
Once he got this big approving-Dad smile on his face when I walked in and announced that I'd been up all night reading Emerson's Essays, that's the kind of material he said he'd like to see me read more of, needless to say I haven't touched it since.
So I'm just wondering anyone else has having similar experiences w/their psychologists, or anything, I'd love to hear from you. I'm going to work now, almost on schedule the first time in weeks. I'm getting gushy again about this community, I feel so connected here to faceless people who know way too much, God only knows what's about to come.
love,
trouble
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