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This book is a creative psychoanalytic odyssey, a most intriguing
psychological voyage. It explores many of the most basic,
fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis, including repression,
insight, transference, play, child analysis, jokes, puns, and
parapraxes as well as the uncanny in dreams.
Psychoanalytic process, as Eugene Mahon envisions it, is an odyssey
through the mind of each of his analysands, the many children and
adults he has treated over the forty years of his analytic
practice. The painted guinea pigs of the title refer to three-year
old children mourning their school pet. Who painted him? a child
asks when a replacement pet of a slightly different color arrives
in the school a few days after the death of the original pet, as if
the dead can return from the grave after a paint job. This book is
full of arresting images like this as the author explores many of
the most basic, fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis e.g.
repression, insight, transference, play, child analysis, working
through, dreams within dreams, jokes, puns, parapraxes as well as
the uncanny in dreams, screen memories, symptom, character and
Freud s discovery of the Oedipus complex. This book is a highly
original, creative psychoanalytic odyssey, a most intriguing
psychological voyage you will not want to disembark from."
‘Many years ago in Mytherranea, before the stars had names, when
daisies were still called days’ eyes, and the moon stayed up all
night to keep the darkness company, there lived a race called
redbits…’ So begins the tale of Rensal, a small creature trying
to make sense of a big world. Running along one day, Rensal bumps
into the Tall One, a wise and mysterious redbit who loves to talk.
Over tea, toast, and berries, the friends discuss life, love,
creation, dreams, death, and everything else that lies under the
sun. This is a book that gets to the heart of what it is to be
young, of the joys and sorrows and confusions of childhood, and of
the questions that continue to be pertinent even when we are
full-grown – how we live, how we love, and what – if anything
– it all means.
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