Beyond Obsession by Hammer Richard;

Author:Hammer, Richard;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

* Remarks delivered to the American Psychoanalytic Society in 1938 and published in 1942 in English as “Some Forms of Emotional Disturbance and Their Relationship to Schizophrenia” in Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

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On a Friday, two weeks after Karin left for Cape Cod, Joyce Aparo was preparing to make the trip there herself with Dennis Coleman to pick up her daughter and go on with them to Nantucket for the weekend. She went into her daughter’s room and opened the drawer of the night table. It was a thing she did often. Karin never threw anything away, and neither did Dennis. Both kept every letter they had ever received and sometimes copies of letters they had written. And so in that drawer, Joyce Aparo found Karin’s diaries and a stack of letters. She read them.

The phone rang in the Hudners’ house on the Cape. The call was for Karin. The caller was her mother. “She was very angry and she was screaming at me. She told me that she had gone into my room and found notes from Dennis and now she knew we were sleeping together. She was calling me names and she said she was driving up to the Cape right then. And she said that when she got there she was going to take some drastic action.” Karin was terrified. She said she began to cry, and the tears, of fear as much as anything else, flowed for the next forty-five minutes while the Hudners tried to comfort her. They didn’t know what was happening; all they knew was that their baby-sitter was extremely tormented.

Six hours later Joyce Aparo arrived. With her was Dennis Coleman. It was his second trip to the Cape that week. Through the hours of that drive Joyce said nothing directly to him about her discovery in Karin’s bedside drawer. “She made some sly little remarks that I would never have caught if I hadn’t known,” he says. But he knew. Karin had called him as soon as Joyce hung up. She had told him about Joyce’s find and Joyce’s reaction. As they traveled through the late afternoon and into the evening, he waited for Joyce to attack him. She didn’t.

At the Hudners’ Karin was sure she knew what to expect when her mother arrived. She was not looking forward to the confrontation. Her first surprise was to see Dennis. She had been sure Joyce would call off her invitation to him. Her second was her mother’s demeanor. Joyce was in a good mood. She acted glad to see Karin, acted the loving mother, and said not a word about the letters she had found or the call she had made earlier in the day. “But then,” Karin later said, “my mother had wild and wide mood swings, and she was very unpredictable.”

They left the Hudners’ almost immediately, drove to Hyannis and stayed the night in a motel. The next morning Joyce, Karin and Dennis made a detour, driving to Provincetown. Joyce left them alone and went shopping by herself.

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