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LitAnalysis: Reading Fiction with Freud
Discuss contemporary fiction with insight from professional psychoanalysts from the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. All are welcome. Discussions are free and open to the public. No registration is necessary.
This group meets the 4th Saturday of the month at 2:00 PM in the Director's Conference Room at the Main Library in Oakland.
Upcoming Discussions:
Michael Ondaatje
The Cat's Table
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. Looking back from adulthood, the narrator relates a tale about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a sea voyage.
Erin Morgenstern
Night Circus
A fierce competition is underway, a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood to compete in "a game," in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.
Previous Discussions 2013:
Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle age. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises.
Eleanor Henderson
Ten Thousand Saints
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
Previous Discussions 2012:
Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.
Dicussion will be led by Dr. Fischetti.
Chris Cleave
Little Bee
Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.
Dicussion will be led by Matt Markon, JD, LCSW.
Emma Donoghue
Room
A 5-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.
Dicussion will be led by Dr. Irwin.
Tea Obreht
The Tiger's Wife
Struggling to understand why her beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Dicussion will be led by Dr. Fischetti.
Book Group Discussion Leader:
Mario Fischetti, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in
private practice specializing in psychoanalytic psychotherapies and psychoanalysis
for alcohol and drug involved persons and their families. As a faculty
member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, he has taught a course
called, "Freudian Theory and the History of Psychoanalysis," to psychoanalysts-in-training.
He is also a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical School.
The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is an accredited nonprofit educational organization that provides quality training and continuing education in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The PPC serves as a resource to the community through education, consultation, and outreach programs.
Updated: 11/12/2012
