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...decaying mansion. From his childhood it has been clear that Leonard is brilliant and in some way blighted. For several chapters, the best of the book, it seems that Storey intends to revive that abandoned form, the psychological novel. His dry, astringent description of Leonard's decline into adulthood is drawn from that curious middle ground between detachment and involvement that Dostoevsky used...
...youth, an Italian boy entering a white-collar job, is no fragile Dedalus embarking upon a tragic bildungsroman; neither is he a dashing hero in a setting devoid of heroism. Domenico's passage into adulthood takes place without ceremony or bravado. He passes quietly, but not painlessly, self-consciously, but never cutely, into a world of hopeless vacuity. Throughout the movie Olmi shows him what he may become--a dulled commuter from lower middle-class suburbs, a paunchy clerk gazing through shop windows, an embittered office-worker yearning for a piddling promotion...
Naturally there are "mutual reachings" in such a seduction--this increases the teacher's liability. Often young people have not fully resolved their own sexuality. Latent homosexual inclinations frequently co-exist with normal desires. Left undisturbed, these usually fade away as the adolescent emerges into adulthood. Except in the relationship of the rapist and patient, it is not always best that submerged contents come to the surface. Under normal circumstances the analysand is not in danger of being led into buggery by his therapist. In denying seduction Goodman exploits these latent attractions. If there were no such skill...
...victim of cystic fibrosis, almost invariably a child because the disease is usually fatal before adulthood, has an inherited enzyme defect that damages the oxygen-exchange cells in his lungs and reduces the elasticity of the lung walls. He does not breathe enough air in, nor let enough out. His windpipe and lungs become clogged with thick viscid mucus. The trick is to loosen and thin this mucus...
Smith referred to "excessive loneliness" as the "most virulent poison invented by industrial society," and pointed out that the primary task of young adulthood is to "develop the capacity nor intimacy...