In the Egosphere
Adam Mars-Jones: The Plot against Roth, 23 January 2014
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
by Claudia Roth Pierpont.
Cape, 353 pp., £25, January 2014,978 0 224 09903 5 Show More
by Claudia Roth Pierpont.
Cape, 353 pp., £25, January 2014,
“... intimate conflicts were rehearsed in a publication cofounded by Freud himself, with a motto from Aeschylus, untranslated, about the value of suffering, and in the ‘Genius, Psychopathology and Creativity’ issue. Pierpont paints a rather harrowing picture of the effects on Roth: ‘There he was, psychically naked, in his psychiatrist’s baleful ... ”