Sublime

She became a reporter: she went to see people, talked to them, recorded what they said, and then skilfully composed the story which reflected the knowledge she had gained. This method lay behind her book, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, published in 1981, in which, over several conversations with one particular analyst, she drew out the

Marie Souvestre’s goal was to make her students “cultivated women of the world,” and Eleanor blossomed under her tutelage. If ER had a fault, it was her seriousness.

Kinkel m’a donné une lettre de recommandation pour Malvida von Meysenburg. Vous la connaissez, c’est elle qui a écrit les Mémoires d’une idéaliste ? » Breuer acquiesça. Il connaissait bien l’œuvre de Malvida von Meysenburg, en particulier ses croisades en faveur des droits des femmes, des réformes politiques radicales et des changements dans les

Manhattan borough president Ruth Messinger,

“Becoming is better than being.”

Bowlby himself told me that just such boarding-school experiences probably inspired George Orwell’s novel 1984, which brilliantly expresses how human beings may be induced to sacrifice everything they hold dear and true—including their sense of self—for the sake of being loved and approved of by someone in a position of authority.

She had not lost interest in politics and current events; it was just that she was now fascinated by the interior life, the reasons and feelings behind people’s actions—why they did what they did.

Mrs Cadwallader said, privately, ‘You will certainly go mad in that house alone, my dear. You will see visions. We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. To be sure, for younger sons and women who have no money, it is a sort of provision to go mad: they are taken care