Essay of the Day, 6/16/12: "Delicious Progress: Whiteness as an Atavisim in Conrad Aiken's 'Silent Snow, Secret Snow'"

“Delicious Progress: Whiteness as an Atavism in Conrad Aiken’s ‘Silent

Snow, Secret Snow.’" Psychoanalytic Review 70 (1983): 235-39.

Early in my career--at the University of North Florida for example--I was teaching a good deal of literature and psychology.

This piece--a consideration of a brilliant Aiken short story--was ground in R. D. Laing's understanding of madness in The Politics of Experience.


Read it here.