The Year of Magical Thinking.ppt

The Year of Magical Thinking And Working Through Family Deaths The Year of Magical Thinking  2003/7/26： 蒂蒂安(Didion) 女兒琪恩達娜(Quintana) 的婚禮 2003/12/25： 琪恩達娜感冒轉肺炎再轉敗血性休克，因而住院 2003/12/30：丈夫約翰在飯桌前死於冠狀動脈疾病 (Mass Coronary Event) 1~3天之內：蒂蒂安寫下「Life changes fast/Life changes in the instant…The question of self-pity」幾行 2004/1/22：琪恩達娜出院，由蒂蒂安照顧 2004/3/23：俟琪恩達娜可以行動，約翰的告別式方始舉行 2004/3/25：琪恩達娜因腦出血又住院 2004/4/30：琪恩達娜與蒂蒂安由加州返回紐約，琪恩達娜在魯斯克中心接受治療，開始逐漸恢復，蒂蒂安則開始整理房子 2004/5/12 晚11:11： 蒂蒂安把檔案打開再儲存，未加任何字 2004/10/4 ：蒂蒂安開始寫作 The Year of Magical Thinking  2004/10/4 ：蒂蒂安開始寫作 2004/12/31：《奇想之年》寫作完畢 2005/8/26： 琪恩達娜過世 2005/10：《奇想之年》出版； 2007 春：蒂蒂安改編的《奇想之年》戲劇在百老匯上演；《奇想之年》中文版在台灣出版． Questions The Year of Magical Thinking Focus chaps 1-7; 12-22 Initial responses (coolness) and repetitions Grief and mourning (any traces of melancholia?) magical thinking as a process of sense-making Is the work of mourning completed? Repetitions? not remember pp. 4, 7 remember 6, 8 mistakes about the date pp. 11, 12 [later] clues to reveal the inevitability of John’s death (Sir Gawain’s quote, etc.) Chaps 1-2 Chap 1 1) Telling stories; delay in writing (Some notes on the computer taken in Jan, 2004. Husband died 12/30/2003 Started to write on 10/4/2004 ) 2) Views of writing and its function Chap 2 -- The Death -- Initial Responses (Denial, Maintaining self-composure, congee [27]) -- different kinds of death (12) -- Autopsy -- A call for organ donation. Starting the year of magical thinking. “I needed to be alone so that he could come back. This was the beginning of my year of magical thinking.” Grief and Mourning Grief ? rationalization a. unwilling to let go b. trying to find clues c. Reading (literature and psychological theories) Reminiscing the past a. The past with John 11-12; what John remembered the year before his death Chaps 3-4: rationalization Chap 3 Disturbed by obituaries 16 Autopsy—another reason Organ donation 18 Shoes – kept for him to come back 19 ? Chap 4 “bringing him back”