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Page 73
... lives . This " romance " takes shape under the pressure exerted by the Oedipus complex and serves to liberate the child from the authority of her parents , whom she once thought irre- proachable but of whom she now has a low opinion ...
... lives . This " romance " takes shape under the pressure exerted by the Oedipus complex and serves to liberate the child from the authority of her parents , whom she once thought irre- proachable but of whom she now has a low opinion ...
Page 141
... ( Lives , 2 : 23. ) I have been able to conquer neither my regrets nor my impatience . That , indeed , is humiliating - to be unable to control one's own thoughts , to be the slave of a regret , of a memory , the slave of a fixed and ...
... ( Lives , 2 : 23. ) I have been able to conquer neither my regrets nor my impatience . That , indeed , is humiliating - to be unable to control one's own thoughts , to be the slave of a regret , of a memory , the slave of a fixed and ...
Page 172
... lives and fictions . The narrative conventions of nineteenth - century England facilitated and structured this accommodation , and each of my authors struggled to achieve it . Each succeeded to an extent : Eliot ques- tioned her control ...
... lives and fictions . The narrative conventions of nineteenth - century England facilitated and structured this accommodation , and each of my authors struggled to achieve it . Each succeeded to an extent : Eliot ques- tioned her control ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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