http://workingthrough.com/blog/292-david-foster-wallace-chronicle-of-a-death-retold thinking about/with creative people and groups Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://workingthrough.com/blog/292-david-foster-wallace-chronicle-of-a-death-retold/comment-page-1#comment-155 matt b Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:08:42 +0000 http://workingthrough.com/blog/292-david-foster-wallace-chronicle-of-a-death-retold#comment-155 It's hard for me to imagine him in psychotherapy--partly because I believe he could verbally destroy most of them and partly because I think he was stubborn. He also discusses a struggle with analysis in "Good Old Neon" - "Later I was in analysis, I tried analysis like everybody in their late twenties who'd made some money or had a family or whatever they thought they wanted and still didn't feel that they were happy. A lot of people I know tried it. It didn't really work, although it did make everyone more aware of their own problems and added some useful vocabulary and concepts to the way we all had to talk to each other to fit in and sound a certain way." It’s hard for me to imagine him in psychotherapy–partly because I believe he could verbally destroy most of them and partly because I think he was stubborn. He also discusses a struggle with analysis in “Good Old Neon” – “Later I was in analysis, I tried analysis like everybody in their late twenties who’d made some money or had a family or whatever they thought they wanted and still didn’t feel that they were happy. A lot of people I know tried it. It didn’t really work, although it did make everyone more aware of their own problems and added some useful vocabulary and concepts to the way we all had to talk to each other to fit in and sound a certain way.”

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