THE UNINVITED GUEST, Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage

JAMES FISHER takes his title from the mysterious psychiatric figure
of T. S. Eliot’s play, The Cocktail Party. He identifies himself with this
theatrical representation of a “marital therapist” in order to conduct
his own review of what he convincingly tells us is Eliot’s internal
account of his first marriage, to Vivienne Haigh-Wood. It forms the
centre-piece of his book. He does it from the vantage point of a
distinguished marital psychoanalytic psychotherapist who is as willing
to delve into English literature as he is into the psychoanalytic
literature. The reader of this book will get the benefit of his
considerable knowledge and enthusiasm for both.