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Woman in her own terms
I would like to convert the diary into a long novel. From it I have already borrowed the themes of Winter of Artifice and Under a Glass Bell. I do want to dramatize the conflicts of woman. Conflict between maternal love and creation. Between romanticism and realism. Between expansion and sacrifice.
The conflicts of woman in present-day society. Theme of development of woman in her own terms, not as an imitation of man. This will become in the end the predominant theme of the novel: the effort of woman to find her own psychology, and her own significance, in contradiction to man-made psychology and interpretation. Woman finding her own language, and articulating her own feelings, discovering her own perceptions. Woman’s role in the reconstruction of the world….The evolution will be from subjectivity and neurosis to objectivity, expansion, fulfillment.
Anaïs Nin, The Journals (vol. 4). August 1944.
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