Subject: Re: List Focus
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 12:07:40 EST
At 9:59 AM +0000 on 1/23/2000, you wrote:
> (You must remember, incidentally, that Tim works in
> one of the back wards where they house the chronic
> psychotics. Like everyone working in that environment
> he's never really happy unless carrying a big 100ml syringe
> filled with chlorpromazine.
Physician, speak for thyself! More than half the time, it's me at
the business end of the syringe -- when I'm not tied down, that is.
> Most of my patients, on the
> other hand, are over-controlled, tight-assed obsessionals
> who need to be reassured that getting angry will not
> precipitate the end of the world.)
Is this really true? (This is not a joke or a sarcastic response.)
Do you tend to have patients for whom anger is a problem in their
daily lives? I'm always interested in anger and how people manage
it, or fail to.
Obligatory JDS reference: In Salinger's short fiction, and in the
Glass stories, I don't think there's much overarching anger. Rather,
anger shows itself in small details only, and the reader is left to
fill in the (sometimes considerable) blanks. Probably the Matron of
Honor in "Raise High..." comes closest to outright full-blast anger.
(I'm deliberately omitting Catcher, where you've got Stradlater,
Maurice, Horwitz, Ackley, the fencing team, and the narrator himself,
all with various levels of anger at Holden Caulfield.)
--tim
-
* Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message
* UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b25 : Mon Feb 28 2000 - 08:38:03 EST