The Writing Cure Emma Lieber by Emma Lieber 9781501360169, 9781501360190, 1501360167, 1501360191 instant download after payment.

The Writing Cure tells four interlocking stories about author Emma Lieber: her time as a scholar of Russian literature, her decade-long analysis, her becoming a psychoanalyst, and the end of her marriage. It does so by tracing dreams, scenes, and signifiers that emerged from her analysis while also undertaking a critical exploration of works of psychoanalytic theory and literary texts. Most centrally, it articulates what psychoanalysis does for its patients by writing the moment of its termination—at the same time as it examines both the end of a marriage and the passage from a literary scholar to a psychoanalyst—in real time; it performs the convergence of theory and life on which psychoanalysis itself balances.
Throughout this work, Lieber considers what psychoanalysis—"the talking cure"—has to do with writing: the foundation of psychoanalysis on Freud’s distinctive writing practice; what it means to write oneself as a psychoanalyst; the extent to which the cure involves a new kind of self-writing. Most broadly, The Writing Cure asks the questions: What would it look like to write your way to the end of an analysis, to the end of a marriage? Is it possible to write yourself into the position of psychoanalyst? Is it possible to write your own cure?