ABECEDAIRE

The author writes five days a week for a year, for the length of the analytic hour. She follows Freud's model of train travel for his theory of free association, assuming a line of thought that reveals the hidden logic that connects seemingly disconnected ideas. She echoes other women throughout.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 18 July 2022
Publisher: MOIST

"I wrote five days a week for a year, no more than a page, writing only for the length of the analytic hour, fifty minutes, following Freud's model of train travel for his theory of free association, acting 'as though, for instance, [you were] a traveller sitting next to the window of a railway carriage and describing to someone inside the carriage the changing views [...] outside'. Many of my women character's names begin with A: their first names; there are few surnames, save those of the secondary male characters. . Some of these women exist or existed, others are from fiction, or write fiction. Some are friends or acquaintances. None are credited but a keen reader could recognise many of them. I invented nothing. I am the aleph."

ISBN-13: 9781913430108