Meanwhile, lust is both a constant and a source of sad derision (as in the many sex-doll photos in which Sherman appears), somehow inseparable from the theme of physical breakdown (as in photos of doll parts as sexualized ruins).
Anna Kavan, original name Helen Woods, married surnames Ferguson and Edmonds, (born 1904, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France died Dec. 5, 1968, London, Eng)., British novelist and short-story writer known for her semiautobiographical surreal fiction dealing with the themes of mental breakdown and self-destruction.
It was a lifelong source of frustration to her that the feverish excitement, both positive and negative (she was called a "man-hater" and "ball-breaker") provoked by its depiction of female emancipation, in particular sexual liberation, eclipsed the – to her – more important theme of madness and breakdown and the novel's experimental, fragmentary structure.
Catastrophic phenomena that afflict millions of lives, ranging from the failure of the Earth's crust in earthquakes, to the collapse of buildings, to the failure of bones due to injuries, all have one common underlying theme: the breakdown of the basic constituents of any material ultimately leads to the failure of its overall structure and intended function.
A quick-and-dirty analysis showed a striking pattern, which won't come as news to anyone who thinks the media only report the bad stuff: themes linked to a range of breakdown scenarios dominated many of the publications.
At McNally Jackson Books in SoHo on Wednesday evening, four authors read selections of their work, under the loose theme of having a nervous breakdown, at an annual event, "The Shrinks Are Away!" "My shrink cured me of my addiction to alcohol, drugs, sugar and bread," said Susan Shapiro, the event's host.
Cameron's speech will also focus on the Tories' "Broken Society" theme of how drugs and family breakdown are leading to social dislocation.
As a paradigm of the modern self, the set of different-coloured notebooks belonging to the writer (and divorcee, and single parent) Anna Wulf continues to serve the novel's themes of compartmentalisation and breakdown half a century on.
As Mr Clark puts it: "Russia and France thereby tied the fortunes of two of the world's greatest powers in highly asymmetric fashion to the uncertain destiny of a turbulent and intermittently violent state .Another important theme is the breakdown of the international order that had kept the "long peace" of the 19th century.
She appears to have suffered a breakdown, and the theme of the woman betrayed runs through all Goethe's writing of the next eight years and beyond.
