Winter Of Artifice - Three Novelettes [Paperback]

Anais; With engravings by Hugho, Ian Nin (Author)

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• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: Swallow Press; Second printing edition (1948)
• ISBN-10: 2721000632
• ISBN-13: 978-2721000637
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Neurosis and the Subconscious: a Don Juan and a Psychoanalyst, February 7, 2011

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This review is from: Winter Of Artifice - Three Novelettes (Paperback)

The content of the various editions of this book differs considerably. This 1945 version contains two sections about Anais's father and some aspects of her relationship with him, and one section that is in the form of a Surrealistic account of psychoanalysis. It also contains a few engravings by her husband Ian Hugo, on the cover and as illustrations.
The Father stories are taken from her diaries (''Incest'' and other ''A Journal of Love'' volumes), but polished and further elaborated, so that some aspects are most completely expressed here. The names are changed here, but she only had one father. After their incestuous affair, she had largely lost interest in him and knew that she would never see him again. He also did not read English. So she described him as she saw and felt him here, except for the actual adult onset incest and whatever material that two psychoanalyses had not dredged up from her childhood subconscious. It says that his defences against being hurt had isolated him behind a mask of lies appearances and superficial and false relationships.
In the third story, the ''Voice'' is a psychoanalyst who is overcome by the counter-transference and falls in love with his patient, as both of Anais's analysts had. She speaks from great authority, having had two psychoanalyses, having briefly studied and practiced psychoanalysis herself and having seduced both her own analysts. This section of the book, appropriately, is written in a poetic surrealist style in which external reality is distorted to show sensations and the unconscious.