Autobiography and|as Narcissism? Psychoanalysis and Self-Reflexive Life-Writing in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love and Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?

Altarplay: A Technology of the Soul

“… 2. For a helpful acknowledgement of the problems of memory in autoethnography, alongside discussion of other oft-cited perceived flaws in the method, see Ingo Winkler (2018) and the literature cited there. For discussion of narcissism in relation to autobiography, see the excellent discussion in Rüggemeier and Scheurer (2019) who note how Alison Bechdel and Eve Sedgewick’s autobiographical texts can appear narcissistic but actually ‘are intensely dialogic and relational’ and invite the participation of the reader in their discussions (p. 187). …”