![]() He stalked out of a restaurant after being asked to wear a necktie. The author is candid enough to describe how, when she invited Lacan to M.I.T., he embarrassed her. These thinkers gave Turkle a new way to look at her own sometimes troubled past. Turkle’s writing about Lacan, whose work could be headache-making, and about the French philosophers Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, is some of the most coherent and humane I’ve read. Turkle studied in Paris in the early 1970s, and she inquired into the work of (and got to know) the controversial French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. ![]() She sketches fine, small profiles of the professors who influenced her, including the gregarious Martin Peretz in the years before he bought The New Republic magazine, and the sociologist David Riesman, the author of “The Lonely Crowd” (1950). She evokes the hothouse atmosphere at Radcliffe and Harvard in the late 1960s, when she was an undergraduate. She has taught for decades at M.I.T., and her books include “Alone Together” (2011) and “Reclaiming Conversation” (2015). Turkle is a clinical psychologist and a thinker about the ethics of technology and online life. ![]() It has gravity and grace it’s as inexorable as a fable it drills down into the things that make a life it works to make sense of existence on both its coded and transparent levels it feels like an instant classic of the genre. Why bury the lede? Sherry Turkle’s memoir, “The Empathy Diaries,” is a beautiful book.
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