Cirrus@Austlit

'I write to answer incipient questions that trouble my mind. I write to relieve some form of anxiety, the question of anxiety being an unanswerable question, since the object cause of anxiety, the shadow of it, cannot be symbolised. I write because I must do so, exhilarating, detestable, painful though this act or impulse might be. I write because it is my joy, the paradoxical satisfaction that I derive from my symptom and the excesses of an enjoyment that is closer to pain than pleasure. My reasons for writing echo the words of Dominique Hecq, a scholar, a friend, a mentor—in her article “Writing the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis for the Creative Writer” (Hecq 4), who looked at the potential usefulness of psychoanalysis for the creative writer. These are words that speak to me personally. I think of the writer as an agent of change. As a writer, I have the persistence, the perseverance, the responsibility, the energy and desire as a creative to be an inspiration, in representing diversity, a voice for the voiceless, in connecting through storytelling.' 

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