autotherapy

This sharply observed, outspoken diary was meant by the playwright both as a sourcebook for plays and as autotherapy.

It is as if Ted Hughes were himself the patient, suffering maybe from impotence or castration fears, and was here attempting an autotherapy with Shakespeare as a dummy.

In a sense, Wyoss's intended murder of the commander was a desperate attempt at autotherapy; he was trying to cure himself of the perceived evil that had taken over his psyche."

His Autotherapy, 1918, explains how he cured boils by giving the patient an extract from the boil, tuberculosis by an extract from the sputum, dysentery by injecting a fluid obtained by filtering the excretions, and so on.

Spivak notes, "I can read Glas as a fiction of Derrida's proper name turning into a thing, of an autobiographical autotherapy or interminable self-analysis against the self-duping of self-sovereignty, crypting the signature so that it becomes impossible to spell it out."

Wedekind possessed the gift of implying rather than stating his editorial comments in a prose that subtly winks at the reader - a reader most likely never intended for these journals, which he meant as a sourcebook for plays and as autotherapy: "Others have recourse to a girl, I stick to my diary."