An Antidote to Fear and Loathing of the Empty Page: Suzi Naiburg’s Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose

Joye Weisel-Barth
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F or me there’s great pleasure in a book about writing by a writer who is thrilled by good writing. Some books of this kind, which have been important to me, are E.B. White’s Elements of Style, Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird, and Natalie Goldberg’s Writing down the Bones. All of these writers dispute—and in their writings belie—the notion that words are cheap and can never capture the depth of human experience. Now I’ve added Suzi Naiburg’s Structure and Spontaneity in Clinical Prose to this group and am about to write it a rave review. What makes Naiburg’s book special is that she is not only a writer and writing teacher, who loves reading and writing, but she’s also a psychoanalyst who knows our particular field and literature well. It seems that she’s read and absorbed everything. Moreover, she has a deep and detailed understanding of good analytic writing—its structures and stylistic modalities—which she beautifully expresses, illustrates, and makes accessible to her readers. She even provides exercises that promote lively and conscious prose, prose that accurately reflects who we are and what we want to say. Because Naiburg has directed this book particularly to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists—a group responsible for spectacularly arid and turgid literature—she explicates with nuanced understanding how clinicians can relive and vividly capture their experiences in writing. And strewn throughout the book are excellent analytic writing samples as well as follow-up exercises. Thus, we can profitably use what she has
对空白页恐惧与厌恶的解药:苏兹·奈伯格临床散文的结构与自发性
对我来说,读一本由一个为优秀作品而激动的作家写的关于写作的书是一种极大的乐趣。这类书对我很重要,包括E.B.怀特的《风格元素》、安妮·拉莫特的《鸟接鸟》和娜塔莉·戈德堡的《写下骨头》。所有这些作家都在争论——并且在他们的作品中相信——文字是廉价的,永远无法捕捉人类经验的深度。现在我把Suzi Naiburg的《临床散文中的结构和自发性》也加入了这个小组,我准备给它写一篇赞不绝口的评论。奈伯格这本书的特别之处在于,她不仅是一位热爱阅读和写作的作家和写作老师,还是一位对我们的特定领域和文学了如指掌的精神分析学家。看来她什么都读了,什么都吸收了。此外,她对优秀的分析性写作——其结构和风格形态——有着深刻而细致的理解,她将其完美地表达、阐释,并使读者易于理解。她甚至提供了一些练习来促进生动和有意识的散文,这些散文准确地反映了我们是谁,我们想说什么。因为奈伯格把这本书专门针对精神分析学家和心理治疗师——这一群体对极其枯燥和浮华的文学作品负责——她以细致入微的理解阐述了临床医生如何在写作中重现并生动地捕捉他们的经历。贯穿全书的是优秀的分析写作范例以及后续练习。因此,我们可以利用她所拥有的
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