Summary:
Provides a psychoanalytic reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. The novel is analyzed through the concepts of transference and counter-transference, two important principles in psychotherapy.
Already with thee! tender is the night,
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But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
-John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale"
A silent but unsettling darkness pervades the novel, Tender is the Night, the story of Dick Diver, a promising young psychologist who falls from fame as he lives with his wife Nicole Warren, a wealthy and beautiful schizophrenic patient.
The Author
The analysis of the novel would be incomplete if not seen side by side with the biography of the author, as Tender is the Night, just like most.....
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