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The Footprints of the Past Walk Through the Novel: A Conversation with Deborah Levy
Author(s) -
Lewis Katie
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/bjp.12425
Subject(s) - conversation , privilege (computing) , active listening , psychology , reading (process) , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , linguistics , communication , law , philosophy , political science
I enjoyed the privilege of being in conversation with Deborah Levy and this paper is a brief account of our dialogue. Deborah read from two of her novels , Swimming Home (2012) and Hot Milk (2016), and we discussed the points of contact between her writing and compositional process, reading her work and listening as a psychotherapist. She spoke of the importance of a back story and we thought about the way that history lies behind actions in the present, about the enduring impact of trauma and the transgenerational transmission of trauma .