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I HAD COME LATE to Helen Garner's work with The First Stone, a book that sent so many people into a tailspin. The young feminists leapt up and down saying she had betrayed them. For me the book had the opposite effect. It opened out my world to the possibility of a different form of writing and reading.
I was in psychoanalysis then, had been for years, and flooded with the transferential tendencies that come from exploring the past and present with an understanding analyst whose work had unsettled my equilibrium. Transference is the notion that we don't simply meet people, we construct them on the basis of our earliest experiences, then superimpose the blueprint ...