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Tone Clusters: the Joyce Carol Oates discussion group archive

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Re: JCO:Passions and Meditations

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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