Marguerite Valentine

Marguerite Valentine

Books for the Psychologically Minded

To Plot or not to Plot

There’s three kinds of writers; one embarks on a journey with a map, they know where they’re going. Another type gets in a car and drives as far as they can see their headlights. A third combines the two approaches. They have a vague idea of where they’re going and if or when  they get lost, then they bring out the map.Which are you? I’ve always been the ‘let’s see where this is taking me’type and that was true even when I wrote non-fiction.  It usually worked. I’d begin with the  problem, move onto a discussion and then wrap it all up. So far so good. It worked for shortish academic papers of about five thousand words, but what of the...

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Academic Papers

Before I was a novelist I worked in Child Protection and as a pyschotherapst. Writing was involved in both the study and practice of this work, though it was very different from my work as a novelist. Here’s some examples of my academic writing. With the frequent references to films and care work, you can see how my career and my artistic inclinations were always close. 2012 ‘Time, Space and Memory in ‘Last Year in Marienbad’ International Journal of  Psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis. 2010 ‘Editorial Introduction to Papers on Matte Blanco’ Aug.BJP 2010 ‘Death’s Dream Kingdom’ the representation of the Unconscious in the film ‘Apocalypse Now’...

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