[Hardy-l] postscript two

[Susan Mary Farrell]

I agree with you Jacky. I have worked most of my career with emotionally
disturbed children and their families.    I have a long standing interest in
Hardy since my teenage years, and for a long time I have had the fantasy of
writing a discourse on his portrayal of familial transmission of character
and "fate" (Tess, Jude).  Father Time is clearly depressed, probably having
been severely emotionally and possibly physically neglected and abused while
in Australia with Arabella and her parents, being a sensitive child anyway
with Jude as his father, with his keen sensibilities (and cousin Sue as
well).    Hardy's portrayal of Father Time is so heartbreaking, and there
are and have been of course thousands - millions? -  of children born into
his kind of situation.  
        I am so glad to have discovered this online community of Hardy
admirers and look forward to continuing communication and commentary.
    Susan

Susan M. Farrell, LISW
 Senior Social Worker
 Counseling Assistance and Referral Services
    (CARS)
  University of New Mexico
  Albuquerque, NM  87131
  
-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Wilkinson [mailto:jacky at wilkinson1.eclipse.co.uk] 
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:05 AM
To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu
Subject: RE: [Hardy-l] postscript two

     I know I digress a little here, Arthur, but in a section I am working
on regarding Little Father Time I discovered this extract from the Journal
of Children in Contemporary Society (1982) regarding Hardy's depiction of
the child:
     'Problems are often dramatised in literature long before they are
recognised as contemporary social issues [. . .]  After years of debate, and
almost a hundred years after Hardy wrote about Little Father Time, a growing
number of specialists in the medical profession are concluding that children
can suffer from depression' Mary Frank    
     Source: Mary Frank,  'Introduction to Childhood Depression', Journal of
Children in Contemporary society, , ed. by Mary Frank (Kingston, Ontario:
The Haworth Press, 1983), p.1.
     In my studies I have been interested to learn of Hardy's interest in
psychology, counting among his friends several psychologists including
Crichton-Browne, an expert on child suicide. Hardy never ceases to amaze me,
his research, in all areas, is so thorough and often ground-breaking.
     Jacky Wilkinson
     PhD candidate, Lancaster University 
      
     -----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Efron [mailto:efron at buffalo.edu] 
Sent: 23 November 2008 14:18
To: hardy-l at coyote.csusm.edu; efron at buffalo.edu
Subject: [Hardy-l] postscript two
     
     In my book on TESS, I recount a little tale about Freud and Hardy. I 
     don't think it is well-known, and it is relevant to my determination to

     deal with Tess as a character in  a novel who should be regarded as if 
     she is a full human being who has an unconscious. Quote from my book:
     
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     As for Hardy's psychological insight, perhaps this comment by Sigmund 
     Freud will suffice:  "He knew psychoanalysis." Freud said this in 1923,

     as he looked up from the copy of  TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES  that he
was 
     reading.
     
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     All the best,
     
     --Art Efron
     
     
     
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