The debate over the Plath archive as an illustration of the problematic slipperiness of ‘facts’, and the impossibility of distinguishing between interpretation and truth within the realm of language
Marilyn and Sylvya and the effect of suicide – an act of violence, Freud suggested, ‘always aimed at more than one person
Marilyn and Sylvya both taunting themselves with female inadequacy the dry heaves of creativity, the self-blame and self-hatred, the endless rejections: ‘Yesterday the rejection of my poetry book ... after a year of hoping
From adolescence on, they struggled against the fate of sex and gender, of having ‘my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity
having heard her voice, one cannot shake her free
Marilyn and Sylvya and the effect of suicide – an act of violence, Freud suggested, ‘always aimed at more than one person
Marilyn and Sylvya both taunting themselves with female inadequacy the dry heaves of creativity, the self-blame and self-hatred, the endless rejections: ‘Yesterday the rejection of my poetry book ... after a year of hoping
From adolescence on, they struggled against the fate of sex and gender, of having ‘my whole circle of action, thought and feeling rigidly circumscribed by my inescapable femininity
having heard her voice, one cannot shake her free
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