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Transference and Counter Transference in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night
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.
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