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> she became one of my heroes The book had a similar impact on myself & partner after we picked it up randomly from a clearance box in a used book store. The
by ttctciyf 7y ago
> she became one of my heroes
The book had a similar impact on myself & partner after we picked it up randomly from a clearance box in a used book store.
The idea that truly owning one's life, thoughts, behaviour and so on is a project to undertake - and not (as might be commonly assumed for successful healthy indiviuals) an effortlessly given state of affairs - seems remarkable for the time she was writing.
From that point of view, there's something singular about on the one hand her observations being utterly unburdened by psychological theory and on the other the scope of what she's attempting!
- yesenadam 7y agoAwesome! :-) I often tell people about her, but have come across her mentioned anywhere extremely rarely, hardly ever. I believe she was a trained psychologist before she started those books! She realized all that training had taught her nothing about herself, so set out to find out for herself. There's a fascinating struggle between her 'trained expert' side yielding to the 'naïve observer' side.