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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 .

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