If all novels, as Tony Tanner once suggested, are about adultery, then they are all about people getting out of something that has become unbearable. As are Genesis, all Greek tragedies, all the great epic poems, all of Shakespeare’s plays, and so on. Wanting to get out of it is not, in this sense, news; or, perhaps, it is the news that stays news, i.e., the eternal personal and political project. Psychoanalysis, one might say, is a modern formalization of the ultimate modern predicament, as is Marxism.
