Kaplan's book is a thoughtful and profound exploration of how the dialogue between parents and children - between the generations - carries on throughout the life cycle. Parents invest their unrealized hopes and dreams in their children and children attempt to realize the charge, often unspoken and unconscious, that their parents have given them. Kaplan elaborates this theme with diverse examples. One is Freud's grandson, the child of the famous "fort-da" ("gone-back") game described by Freud, who overcame childhood traumas to do work as a psychologist in the U.S.A. with babies in neonatal intensive care units, in part to redeem a sibling lost when his mother died while pregnant in the influenza pandemic after World War I. Another is the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, whose uncanny deconstruction of reality in his art harkens back to the violent rupture of his mother's suicide and the family mythology that developed around her death.
Kaplan is best known for
Female Perversions
, which was the inspiration for
the movie of the same title
. The fact this is one of her last books (Kaplan passed away in 2012) carries a certain poignance, as it closes with a simultaneous declaration of faith and questioning "that the human dialogue resists it own obliteration" (p. 241). It is written far more accessibly than many psychoanalytic works and is well worth reading.
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