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he hated his mother and that he hadn't lived enough. When he heard that Krasner and Pollock hadn't had sex in three years, Klein encouraged Pollock to "act out" his sexual problems, precipitating him into new binges of pinching and insulting women-"the brutish grappling, the childlike weeping, the grossness, the menace, [which] were all forms of protection, ways of insulating himself from the very intimacy he professed to crave," and which guaranteed that he wouldn't have to perform (p. 77). No one seems to have considered that Pollock might have been struggling with homosexuality. He also underwent a spooky, expensive biochemical treatment with someone who wasn't really a doctor. Someone else tried the techniques of L. Ron Hubbard, and there was another therapist named Hubbard, but his friends kept on drinking with him. Assuming that his treatments were owing to medical ignorance, not blatant exploitation, it seems that two other factors operated to keep Pollock from being helped: the fear or awe or institutionalized Jungian convictions doctors had about creativity, their sense that this was a gift or force to be exempted from the reductive ministrations of a "cure." And there was

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Author

Liza Kirwin; Robert F. Brown; Garnett McCoy; Judith A. Gustafson; Betty Blum; Marina Pacini; Paul J. Karlstrom; Joanne Ratner

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1989

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)