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Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2016.1213607 BibTeX citation key: Magnet2017 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: "Are You My Mother?", Autobiography, Bechdel. Alison, Psychoanalysis, USA Creators: Magnet Collection: Women & Therapy |
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This article considers the ways that people might engage with therapeutic processes on the long road to self-actualization. It is also a call for those who can, to think of this labor as a form of activism. I ask that we reflect on some of the possible routes to achieving what might loosely be termed forms of affective knowledge. As part of this call, I first examine theories around graphic fiction, therapy, and possible connections between these fields. I then investigate a text that exemplifies the liberatory potential of therapy: Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Are You My Mother? and its possibilities for explaining the therapeutic process.
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