Windows/Fenetres: Fenetres

Rating:
Summary: A Delight
Review: This is a book one reads, as one does with Adam Phillips's books, wishing one could be analyzed by the author. Nothing earth-shattering here for theory freaks; Windows is a delightful excursion through Pontalis's light-hearted musings about pain and meaning. Discursive, curt, perfectly appointed, each brief chapter moves you towards compassion, calm, understanding. Seemingly more inspired by philosophy -- I believe the author studied with Sartre -- than psychoanalysis. The metapsychology here is buried in the dirt, though the garden we see is gorgeous.

Beautifully translated as well.