As an old family therapist I feel compelled to point out that that Lacanian
insight predates him by a few decades.
At 06:05 PM 12/16/2005, you wrote:
> >And what makes them so bad
> > is so close to what otherwise makes his writing compelling.
>
>There is the Lacanian insight, if insight it be, that the thing one
>finds attractive about someone at the start of an affair is
>fundamentally the thing one will find unbearable about them at the end
>of it. DHL perhaps compresses the whole procedure into a dizzy-making
>simultaneity. Odi et amo - or laus et vituperatio...
>
>Dominic
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