{"id":154883,"date":"2021-09-28T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=154883"},"modified":"2021-10-12T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T17:02:27","slug":"redux-collapse-distinctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/28\/redux-collapse-distinctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Collapse Distinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154884\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6286\/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154884\" class=\"wp-image-154884 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/in-his-analysands-chair-2000.-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/in-his-analysands-chair-2000.-.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/in-his-analysands-chair-2000.--300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In His Analysands\u2019 Chair, 2000.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking about psychoanalysis and the interpretation of dreams. Read on for <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6286\/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips\">Adam Phillips\u2019s Art of Nonfiction interview<\/a>, an excerpt from Sigrid Nunez\u2019s novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7036\/the-blind-sigrid-nunez\">The Friend<\/a><\/em>, Joanna Scott\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/2067\/a-borderline-case-joanna-scott\">A Borderline Case<\/a>,\u201d and Mark Scott\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/709\/two-poems-mark-scott\">Freudian Tenderness<\/a>,\u201d as well as selections from a 1984 portfolio of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/2991\/drawings-from-the-1950s-louise-bourgeois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louise Bourgeois drawings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interview<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6286\/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6286\/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips?utm_source%3DThe%2BParis%2BReview%2BNewsletter%26utm_campaign%3Ded114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_term%3D0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-%26mc_cid%3Ded114d1a30%26mc_eid%3DUNIQID&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632928036677000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHnIOTbM0_zte3xsSv2pw5WKYczFw\">Adam Phillips, The Art of Nonfiction No. 7<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 208 (Spring 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Psychoanalytic sessions are not like novels, they\u2019re not like epic poems, they\u2019re not like lyric poems, they\u2019re not like plays\u2014though they\u2019re rather like bits of dialogue from plays. But they do seem to me to be like essays, nineteenth-century essays. There is the same opportunity to digress, to change the subject, to be incoherent, to come to conclusions that are then overcome and surpassed, and so on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154885\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/2991\/drawings-from-the-1950s-louise-bourgeois?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154885\" class=\"wp-image-154885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1-jpeg.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-1-jpeg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from a Louise Bourgeois drawing, ca. 1950s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Fiction<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7036\/the-blind-sigrid-nunez?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7036\/the-blind-sigrid-nunez?utm_source%3DThe%2BParis%2BReview%2BNewsletter%26utm_campaign%3Ded114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_term%3D0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-%26mc_cid%3Ded114d1a30%26mc_eid%3DUNIQID&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632928036677000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGTF5VBbf-I_xUDgFw1k7gu-xJ-kg\">The Blind<\/a><br \/>\nBy Sigrid Nunez<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 222 (Fall 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The doctors who examined the women\u2014about a hundred and fifty in all\u2014found that their eyes were normal. Further tests showed that their brains were normal as well. If the women were telling the truth\u2014and there were some who doubted this, who thought they might be malingering\u2014the only explanation was psychosomatic blindness. In other words, these women\u2019s minds, forced to take in so much horror and unable to take more, had managed to turn out the lights.<\/p>\n<p>This was the last thing you and I talked about while you were still alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_154886\" style=\"width: 747px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/2991\/drawings-from-the-1950s-louise-bourgeois?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154886\" class=\"wp-image-154886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2-jpeg.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-2-jpeg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from a Louise Bourgeois drawing, ca. 1950s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Fiction<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/2067\/a-borderline-case-joanna-scott?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/2067\/a-borderline-case-joanna-scott?utm_source%3DThe%2BParis%2BReview%2BNewsletter%26utm_campaign%3Ded114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_term%3D0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-%26mc_cid%3Ded114d1a30%26mc_eid%3DUNIQID&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632928036678000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEsDznbFoPFZ6ICSmxQGCGw6D3brQ\">A Borderline Case<\/a><br \/>\nBy Joanna Scott<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 123 (Summer 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the story of K and B, analyst and patient; specifically, this is the story of their first session together, before K had cured his patient, \u201cdispersed\u201d B, as he\u2019d say, helping him to become \u201cmore B than ever before.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_154887\" style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/2991\/drawings-from-the-1950s-louise-bourgeois?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154887\" class=\"wp-image-154887 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-3-jpeg-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-3-jpeg-copy.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-3-jpeg-copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from a Louise Bourgeois drawing, ca. 1950s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Poetry<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/709\/two-poems-mark-scott?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/709\/two-poems-mark-scott?utm_source%3DThe%2BParis%2BReview%2BNewsletter%26utm_campaign%3Ded114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_term%3D0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-%26mc_cid%3Ded114d1a30%26mc_eid%3DUNIQID&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632928036678000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHHF6GGwvr2O2P9OcV5He4p4-LiQA\">Freudian Tendencies<\/a><br \/>\nBy Mark Scott<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 155 (Summer 2000)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Freud liked to collapse distinctions:<br \/>\nmasochism is the continuation<br \/>\nof sadism (&#8220;nothing but&#8221;), in which<br \/>\none&#8217;s own person takes the place<\/p>\n<p>of the sexual object; so looking<br \/>\nis analogous to touching; is based<br \/>\non touching, is base in so far forth;<br \/>\nbut neither the lingering at the touching<\/p>\n<p>nor the lingering at the looking<br \/>\nsatisfies the libido, the lust . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_154888\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/2991\/drawings-from-the-1950s-louise-bourgeois?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154888\" class=\"wp-image-154888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-4-jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-4-jpeg.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/unnamed-4-jpeg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from a Louise Bourgeois drawing, ca. 1950s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Art<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/2991\/drawings-from-the-1950s-louise-bourgeois?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ed114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-&amp;mc_cid=ed114d1a30&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/2991\/drawings-from-the-1950s-louise-bourgeois?utm_source%3DThe%2BParis%2BReview%2BNewsletter%26utm_campaign%3Ded114d1a30-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_term%3D0_35491ea532-ed114d1a30-%26mc_cid%3Ded114d1a30%26mc_eid%3DUNIQID&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1632928036678000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFZTWUtnJs7-Vab9QAzFn-wo2_epQ\">Drawings from the 1950s<\/a><br \/>\nBy Louise Bourgeois<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 92 (Summer 1984)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019re lifting out of the archive work by Sigrid Nunez, Joanna Scott, and Mark Scott, as well as an interview with Adam Phillips and art by Louise Bourgeois. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Redux: Collapse Distinctions by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 28, 2021 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