The Ice Is Melting

In The Ice is Melting, Leigh Lyndon, Psy.D., uses three personal vignettes to illustrate various uses of an object, the process of internalizing an other, and how addiction can be used to circumvent the need for an other. Using auto theoretical prose poetry to pull the reader into her experiences, she allows the reader, thusly, to encounter - rather than be told – her ideas about the ways in which bodies are inscribed not only by our earliest relationships but by the social as well. She describes in detail several ways that she attempted to manage her anxiety about having to be in these different relationships (to self, to the other, to culture). By using auto-theory, Lyndon is implicitly asking the reader to attend to their own sources of understanding and is troubling our ideas of what it is "to know."