El fascinante diálogo entre el ganador del Premio Nobel J.M. Coetzee y la psicoanalista Arabella Kurtz sobre la inclinación humana a elaborar historias«Las historias que nos contamos a
nosotros mismos puede que no sean ciertas pero es lo único que tenemos. Me interesa la relación que mantenemos con estas historias, sean o n o sean ciertas.
English Description
A fascinating dialogue on the human desire to make up stories between Nobel Prizewinning author J. M. Coetzee and psychotherapist Arabella Kurtz
The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with training in literary studies. Coetzee and Kurtz consider
psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a fascination with narrative. Working alone, the writer is in control of
the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in telling the story that might reveal the truth.”
The authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, the gang, the settler nation in which the brutal deeds of the ancestors must be
accommodated into a national story. In a meeting of the minds that is illuminating, surprising, and thought provoking, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examinationour
attempts to understand our own individual life stories as well as our part in the larger story through language.
