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Didn't love this quite as much as Fun Home but still enjoyed it. Definitely related to various aspects, particularly some of the author's feelings about her mother. The book felt kind of like a therapy session -- sometimes the psychological jargon was a bit much but I found most of it enlightening and might check out Alice Miller's book (referenced throughout) as a result.
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A graphic memoir companion to Fun Home (in which the author explores her relationship with her dad). In this one, she takes on her relationship with her mother.
More intellectual than some other graphic memoirs I’ve read, there are many literary references and an exploration of psychotherapy that shifts perspective back and forth between both sides of the couch.
More intellectual than some other graphic memoirs I’ve read, there are many literary references and an exploration of psychotherapy that shifts perspective back and forth between both sides of the couch.
Bechdel is clearly a genius and all her wealth of intellect is on display in this second memoir, which is nominally about her mother but actually (and explicitly at points) about Alison. She uses her expressive drawings and concise prose to delve into her own psychology, weaving in her obviously deep research into psychoanalysts like Freud (the only one I had heard of) and Winnicott (her favorite and new to me). At first I was leery - uninterested in going to therapy with Bechdel even when beaut
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It was a dense book filled more with her own psychoanalysis and past relationships than introspection on her relationship to her mother. It became more about how Fun Home was published than an actual story in it's own rite. Maybe Alison Bechdel can illustrate some of Freud's work next, I would have paid more attention in Psych class.
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I enjoyed Alison Bechdel's Fun Home much more so than this book, although I can understand, after reading it, why it was so important for her to write it. This psychology major was ironically uninterested in all the Freud, Winnicott, and psychoanalysis--- still lots of moving, poignant, and funny scenes. Well worth the read.
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Too much concentration on her own therapy. I much prefer Fun Home, the book about her father. Update: In fact, the more I think about this book, the less I like it because I found myself impatient with Bechdel and bored with the story she was telling as well.
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