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Category: Alison Bechdel

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

insight, psychoanalysis

It’s our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

authenticity, psychological-insight

Gatsby’s self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father’s. Like Gatsby, my father fueled this transformation with the “colossal vitality of his illusion”. Unlike Gatsby he did this on a school teacher’s salary.

father, gatsbypoor, illusion, rich, school-teacher

It’s imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

gender, homosexuality

If it weren’t for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

alison-bechdel, fun-home, grief, suicide

She has given me a way out.

art, creativity, growing-up, mothers-and-daughters

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

equal-rights, feminism, lesbianism, practice, theory

Four years after my father’s death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.

adults, childhood, children, death, elude, father, grief, parents

Don’t you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don’t want to see you again.

family, kids, love, mother, trailer

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

erotic, homosexuality, shame, truth