Re: JCO:Passions and Meditations

Thanks,

ruth

On 20-May-05, at 3:25 PM, Perla Dueck wrote:

<excerpt>The story is in the collection "The Seduction and Other
Stories".  It is only one story entitled "Passions and Meditations". 

 

Perla

<bold><italic>Ruth Pickering
<<dragonroots@sympatico.ca></italic></bold> wrote:

What collection of short stories is/are these stories in? Is it one

story (ie Passions and Meditations) or two?

ruth

On 19-May-05, at 4:16 PM, Perla Dueck wrote:

> I am reading Joyce Carol Oates'  short story Passions and Meditations

> and it seems to me that the story is a case study of some sort of

> mental illness.  I noticed hints of multiple personality disorder and

> what might be schizophrenia but I am not sufficiently familiar with

> psychology to know what mental disease is described.  Would someone

> who is more familiar with mental illness be able to tell me which

> mental illness is portrayed in Passions and Meditations?

>  

> Thank you

>  

>

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