Posted by sar on March 22, 2002, at 13:01:44
In reply to my book-burning beat psychologist , posted by trouble on March 22, 2002, at 12:06:15
dear trouble,
(everytime i see your name i remember that eighties commercial for a game that my brother and i loved: Trouble. the commercial has a bunch of kids enthusiastically playing this game, and one of them shouts, "I'll give you TROUB-LE!"
on to other things: i think your psych sounds like a prig and a pisher. it sounds as if he is mourning an English degree he never got, or the great american novel he never wrote--what's his nose doing in your reading material?
i had a psychoanalyst (who i ended up hating, but forget about that part) who rarely referred to books, but eagerly responded when i did. it didn't matter what i read, she just wanted to know why that book was important to me, and to even bring it in to read passages of it to her that i found especially meaningful to my psychological state.
why not muddle around in existentialism for awhile if you enjoy it? Camus' *The Stranger* brought great relief to me when i read it 5 years ago and was pretty depressed; it just made me feel better to know that a writer, a famously respected one, shared some similar ideas with me (though he worded them much more cohesively and creatively).
as far as his mowed-lawn persona goes...it sounds as if you have a lil prahlem with that. i certainly would, too, but that's just because i just don't wanna talk to no *man* about my problems. do you like this guy or not? my psychoanalyst (the one i ended up hating) was quite the hipster, i was really enthralled with her for awhile, until i felt that she was heartless. at least your psych sounds as if he cares about you, though all the discussion of books sounds as if--i don't know; that you're avoiding issues, or intellectualizing them, or that you and Mowed Lawn are having a battle of the wits.
of course, i am frequently wrong.
love,
sar
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