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The Feral Swan
The Feral Swan
The Feral Swan
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THE FERAL SWAN tells of epic adventure, during a journey through the land of myth. In parallel, there unfolds the impact on plot of the maturation of symbolization in adolescence and in people of mature years. The prose is near poetic. The story is strong. Carl, a student, who escapes into fantasy when frustrated, tries to rewrite an epic poem as a novel. He decides to use his own fantasies in place of needed research. He adds a great battle for the castle at Inbal to illustrate how cowardly is a king. He adds new characters to challenge the reason for the quest of the king's general, the hero of the epic poem, Sadak. He has been sent on the quest to find the "waters of oblivion" which will erase his own image from its place in the memory of his wife. She has been abducted by the lecherous king, a man who is dependent on Sadak's strength for the safety of his kingdom. The epic hero enters the world of the dead, and returns to the land of the living with the elixir. During his return to life, Sadak is confronted by the spirit of a companion, who had been lost to the sea from their ship. The man, realizing that he has nothing to return to, rejects requests that he rejoin the living. Sadak continues to his home. On the way he replaces the elixir with poison. The king seizes the potion for himself, and dies. Carl's subterfuge is discovered. He learns to respond to reality, gives up dreaming, marries his girlfriend and gets a job writing fantasies for the movies.
LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateMar 15, 2007
ISBN9780595877225
The Feral Swan
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Charles Sarnoff

Charles Sarnoff, MD is formerly Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. He is a board certified child psychiatrist, a graduate child analyst, and formerly was an electroencephalographer and research flight surgeon at the US Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. He has written “LATENCY”, “Fear of Flying Case Book” and, Symbols in Structure and Function” He studied with Anna Freud in London. His major at Princeton was physiological chemistry. He has two children and four grandchildren. Jon Sarnoff, MD, MBA is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the NYU School of Medicine. He is a board certified pediatrician. He has been honored for his teaching skills during his fellowship years at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He captained the crew at Princeton. He has two children. Medical knowledge grows with the passing of the years. It flows through the generations in a life beyond the life of a man revered teachers contribute to the flow. Students learn and challenge; then they grow to take their elder’s place, questions asked demand new answers that transform the flow. Questioners may be forgotten but answers live on, supporting the health of mankind. Two people forty years apart shared a childhood. The child’s questions opened his world, and created insights for the father. The boy became a pediatrician, the father a child psychiatrist. As they joined the flow, jon enhanced his grasp of developmental childhood psychopathology, and charles became humble in the face of challenges to theory. Their interchanges became this book.

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