Seduction of the Minotaur
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Seduction of the Minotaur is an autobiographical novel by Anaïs Nin, the last part of her Cities of the Interior sequence.[1] It is about a woman named Lillian, and her self-psychoanalysis.[2] The setting is taken from Anaïs' diary account of her first trip to Acapulco in 1947, and the novel repeats much of the first part of The Diary of Anaïs Nin volume V. Since the author was concerned with psychology rather than physical adventure, there is actually less violence in the novel than in the diary account. The exception is that the doctor allows himself to be shot because he is loved only as a doctor and never as a man, perhaps patterned after her understanding of Otto Rank's death.
The title refers to the Freudian concept of a "monster" in the unconscious confined by a "labyrinth". Since one should not kill one's own mind, the repressed feelings must be "seduced" by developing conscious insight. An earlier version was published in 1958 with the title Solar Barque, after a ship found in an Egyptian pyramid.
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- House of Incest (1936)
- Winter of Artifice (1939)
- Cities of the Interior
- Ladders to Fire
- Children of the Albatross
- The Four-Chambered Heart
- A Spy in the House of Love
- Seduction of the Minotaur
- Collages (1964)
- The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin (1978–1985)
- The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1966–1977)
- Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1986)
- A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1987)
- Incest: From a Journal of Love (1992)
- Fire: From a Journal of Love (1995)
- Nearer the Moon: From A Journal of Love (1996)
- Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 (2013)
- Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1947–1955 (2017)
- Under a Glass Bell (1944)
- Waste of Timelessness: And Other Early Stories (1977)
- Delta of Venus (1977)
- Little Birds (1979)
- Auletris (2016)
- D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study (1932)
- The Novel of the Future (1968)
- In Favor of the Sensitive Man (1976)
- Hugh Parker Guiler (husband)
- Rupert Pole (second husband)
- Joaquín Nin (father)
- Joaquín Nin-Culmell (brother)
- Henry Miller
- Henry & June (1990 film)
- Delta of Venus (1994 film)
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