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"be everything at once"

A Korean woman wrote a comic book


A quote

"I am an extremely toxic person and I should change before my negativity consumes me"




Except, how much is in your power to change?

My negativity has already consumed me

The Inverted Forest by John Dalton

A Blue Fire by James Hillman
A View from the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Dooley, L. (1920). Psychoanalysis of Charlotte Brontë, as a Type of the Woman of Genius. The American Journal of Psychology, 31(3), 221-272. JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1413538.

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

The Housewife Assassin's Relationship Survival Guide
by Josie Brown

Is Dr. Dooley Freudian - in 1920? How's the book?

Psychoanalysis was controversial in the 1900s and 1910s----but, by the 1920s, it had penetrated into at least some of the US public. It was a "cause celebre," seen as being "modern." Lots of its precepts was used (and still is used) in "pop psychology."

Freud formulated his theories, to a considerable extent, by 1900. 1900 was the year he wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams."

The Cat Inside, by William Burroughs.

Avid cat lover - as most authors are - Burroughs wrote a number of remembrances, dream memories, and thoughts on (mostly) cats he's known, or owned, and about the cats role as an animal totem dating back to ancient Egypt. A very expectantly different Burroughs from his better known literature.

"ruins" is a graphic novel about a couple that goes to Mexico

The Norton Critical Edition collecting Chekhov's short stories.

The Aeneid by Virgil.

Norton

JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1413538

Hi Claradoon,
It wasn't a book, but rather an article in The American Journal of Psychology which you can read or download using the above link, even if you don't have a JSTOR account. Dooley posits that Charlotte's entire body of genius is inspired by a psychosexual complex, based on her mother's death and her father-daughter relationship with Patrick. The paper was largely speculative and uncited, but I read it because of the ludicrous nature of Freudian psychology. It's worth a read if you want to understand Freud better, and there are some clever insights about Villette, but overall it was shockingly presumptuous.

I've just begun attempting Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound in the Greek.