{"product_id":"wrong-son","title":"Wrong Son","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eThe Wrong Son is a memoir of emotional precision - a searching, unsparing\naccount of what it means to come into being in the absence of love.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eIn 1963, a young husband loses his pregnant wife and eighteen-month-old son\nin a car accident. Six months later, he meets a woman who abandons her own\nhusband and child for him - a man who seems to her everything she has ever\nwanted.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eWithin two years, a boy is born into this family of grief and guilt, into a house\nalready filled with ghosts, where neither parent can see him clearly through\nwhat each has lost.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eHis mother demands perfection. His father, meanwhile, decides early on that\nthis child exists only because the first one died - and cannot forgive him for it.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eMoulded by his mother, rejected by his father, he is given no space in which to\nbecome himself.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eThroughout his life, no matter how much he tries to invent himself, he is driven\nby the fear that nothing real exists underneath. Fifty years on, after his parents'\ndeaths, that fear begins to unmoor him.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eHe turns to the work of psychoanalysts who were pioneers of early childhood\npsychology around the time he was born.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the insights of D.W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, The Wrong Son\ntraces a life shaped not only by loss and violence, but by psychic damage that\nmay never fully be shaken off.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003eWith forensic clarity and unexpected humour, The Wrong Son is a quietly\ndevastating work: deeply human, psychologically attuned, and unafraid to stay\nwith what cannot be resolved.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weatherglass Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56682606362968,"sku":"9781068176692","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781068176692_6d7578cd-72b1-4660-96b4-05d85e30cc9c.jpg?v=1780442118","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/wrong-son","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}