The Purloined Clinic

Selected Writings

Janet Malcolm

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English

Vintage Books
01 February 1994

Theory of art; Prose: non-fiction; Literary studies: general; Psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

"The Purloined Clinic is a retrospective of essays, reviews, and reports that reflect

the range and depth of Janet Malcolm's engagement with psychology, criticism, art,

and literature.

She examines aspects of ""that absurdist collaboration,"" the psychoanalytic

dialogue, from which come ""small, stray sell recognitions that no other human relationship

yields, brought forward under conditions . . . that no other human relationship could

survive."" She addresses such subjects as Tom Wolfe's vendetta against modern architecture,

Milan Kundera's literary experiments, and Vaclav Havel's prison letters. She explores

the somewhat deflated world of post-revolutionary Prague, guides us through the labyrinthine

New York art world of the eighties, and takes us behind the one-way mirror of Salvador

Minuchin's school of family therapy. And to each subject she brings the incisive skepticism

and dazzling epigrammatic style that are her hallmarks.

""Why don't more people write

like

Malcolm ? . . . She is cast from the mold of the Eastern European intellectual-

beholden to modernism. as familiar with Kundera's exile as she is with Freud's Vienna.

This sensibility must grant her the detachment she sometimes so mercilessly employs,

but it also gives her an unassailable passion for getting to the center of things.""

-Boston Globe"

By: Janet Malcolm
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 335g
ISBN: 9780679748106
ISBN 10: 0679748105
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 01 February 1994
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , ELT Advanced , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings

Why don't more people write like [Malcolm]?... She is cast from the mold of the Eastern European intellectual: beholden to modernism. as familiar with Kundera's exile as she is with Freud's Vienna. This sensibility must grant her the detachment she sometimes so mercilessly employs, but it also gives her an unassailable passion for getting to the center of things. -- Boston Globe