Coetzee & Kurtz: "The Good Story"
The full title: The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy . Not really looking for answers -- just interesting discussion (to interact with here or in my head) and perhaps a little good writing. Nabokov's The Eye (another text I've overlooked all these years) is coming next. * The text of The Good Story is basically a back-and-forth between Coetzee and Kurtz. I just finished King, Queen, Knave (certainly good enough to deserve the label: NABOKOVIAN -- and certainly deserving of a reread some day), and have just started The Good Story (I had the e-version pre-ordered). First excerpt (from a link in the daisy chain by Kurtz): So the truth which psychotherapy is based upon, or at least my version of psychotherapy, is always dynamic, provisional and inter-subjective. It is contained within the terms of a relationship, which aims to reflect upon internal experience to help the patient to live as fully as possible in the world. It is...