> From:         Anne Wyatt-Brown
> Subject:      RE: Fw: Between Pennebaker and Kaufman
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> If I recall correctly, young people committed suicide thanks to identifying
> with Young Werther.  I haven't heard of young women following suit after
> reading Plath's Bell Jar or her poetry.  Anne
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> Anne Wyatt-Brown
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> From: J. R. Raper [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Subject: Re: Fw: Between Pennebaker and Kaufman
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>
>         Haifa,
>
>         If you read the (published) letters from her mother, you find out
> that Plath had an intrusive show-biz type mother who tended to micro-manage
> the girl's life, which may have robbed her of the ability to develop
> internal resources including initiative and agency.  From her most powerful
> poems we also know how she viewed her father, who, in fact, was chiefly a
> missing part of her life.  Without his real presence, she felt she had to
> fill the blanks with boundless projections.
>
>         Given these two parental objects, she must have suffered from severe
> core deficits that made it difficult to neutralize the larger emotions that
> flooded her, including her successes and her depressions.  Ted Hughes was
> asked to fill a vacuum in her life he could hardly know what to do with.
> Surely he was not the perfect husband for her, but who could have undone the
> damage of the two parents, one dead, the other too much alive.
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>         Nor did releasing the emotions in the poems fill the deficits.
>
>         Her overwhelming passions gave us her poems, but they also took her
> finally from her admiring readers.
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>         As a professor in the seventies and eighties, I found it painful to
> watch young women read The Bell Jar and identify.  Plath likely became the
> Young Werther of that generation, leaving a string of attempted suicides in
> her wake.
>
>         Tell me I am wrong because I still love many of the poems.
>
>         The film does not, as I recall, deal adequately with any of these
> core issues.
>
>         Cheers,
>         Jack Raper
>
>                 ----- Original Message -----
>                 From: Murray M.Schwartz <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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>                 Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 7:31 AM
>                 Subject: Fw: Between Pennebaker and Kaufman
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>                 From: Dr. Haifa Al-Sanousi
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>                 Subject: Between Pennebaker and Kaufman
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>                 Hello everyone
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>                 From my reading and my research I reached the point that
> says (Expressive Writing is a therapeutic tool). We can get this from the
> great researcher James Pennebaker. And when we read Kaufman's research we
> reached the point which says poetry might cause an early death..!
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>                 I do believe that expressive writing including creative
> writing lead to well- being, self- exploring and improving, especially when
> you write from the heart.
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>                 I - myself - have a great positive result from expressive
> writing through my life. I started writing when I was 10 years old.
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>                 When we look at Sylvia's poetry we can see that she was
> focusing on the sad events and feelings in her life, she was looking at the
> dark side of her life. I don't think that she expressed in her poetry the
> good things in her life, such as being a wife of a great British poet,
> having two beautiful kids, being a poet herself, etc.
>                 I think she killed herself because she was depressed and she
> was getting in touch with her dark thoughts and sad feelings when she write>
> or read her poetry.Am I right ?
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>                 Haifa
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