3. E.g., Harry Stack Sullivan and Kurt Lewin.
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4. Like several others in the story, this phrase is italicized as if to underscore meaning seized on the run.
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6. ''Outsider" is Virginia Woolf's term in Three Guineas (1938), a feminist volume that Olsen frequently cites in public lectures and private conversations.
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7. D. H. Lawrence developed this concept throughout his work. See, e.g., his letter to Ernest Collings (17 January 1913) in The Portable D. H. Lawrence (New York: Viking, 1947), 563: "My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect."
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8. "Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted": a phrase from E. M. Forster's novel, Howard's End (1910), and used, in part, as its epigraph.
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9. In the sense defined by Ralph Freedman in his influential study, The Lyrical Novel: Studies in Hermann Hesse, André Gide, and Virginia Woolf (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963); that is, a fiction that emphasizes personal experience as revealed through poetic methods more than strictly narrative forms.
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10. The clarity that derives from Tolstoy's fervent Christianity.
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12. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying (New York: Macmillan, 1970).
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13. Eva's first physician misses the diagnosis, but this serves an aesthetic rather than moral goal in that it allows Olsen to observe what I have termed Eva's "Laurentian" behavior while the cancer is still unknown to her intellect.
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14. It may be helpful to see their methods as Rogerian. Carl R. Rogers, who believed that the good therapeutic relationship was paradigmatic of any good interpersonal activity-and that the object of both was to help others become persons-outlined three conditions for the helper. He or she was to be "congruent" (i.e., genuine), to have "unconditional positive regard" for the client, and to evince "accurate empathy." See "The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions of Therapeutic Personality Change," Journal of Consulting Psychology 21 (1957): 95-103.
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15. Cf. Mary de Santis, the private duty nurse in Patrick White's novel, The Eye of the Storm (New York: Viking, 1974), for
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