{"id":1060,"date":"2009-11-01T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/sigmund-freud-vs-britney-spears.html"},"modified":"2009-11-01T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T17:24:00","slug":"sigmund-freud-vs-britney-spears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/11\/sigmund-freud-vs-britney-spears.html","title":{"rendered":"Sigmund Freud vs. Britney Spears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Su3HIPVdeWI\/AAAAAAAAAfg\/E2cXFLgHdCY\/s1600-h\/freud2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/Su3HIPVdeWI\/AAAAAAAAAfg\/E2cXFLgHdCY\/s320\/freud2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>WHEN i heard that a biographer had gone into therapy impersonating britney spears (that&#8217;s the way it was teed up to me), i thought, this guy must be very cynical, or have really bad taste in music. or maybe both.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>but the young biographer i met at a cafe in venice beach was an engaging, earnest lad from a small town in yorkshire who had made unorthodox use of a therapist to gain insight into the mind of the pop princess who had denied him the more traditional kind of access. (and steve dennis, who makes his living as a ghostwriter, ends up being a fan of singer songwriters like bon iver and david gray.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>does this method work? that&#8217;s the question i put to a small panel of experts. dennis himself points out that meryl streep never met julia child, but was still able to render her with sympathy in &#8220;julie and julia.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-britneybook31-2009oct31,0,5950192.story\">here<\/a> is my story from the LATimes. my favorite moment is when dennis called his british publisher, explaining his idea of therapy-by-proxy, and got a strange silence on the line. then: &#8220;you really have been in L.A. too long. forget the herbalist and soy lattes &#8212; this is a step too far.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo by Max Halberstadt<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEN i heard that a biographer had gone into therapy impersonating britney spears (that&#8217;s the way it was teed up to me), i thought, this guy must be very cynical, or have really bad taste in music. or maybe both. but the young biographer i met at a cafe in venice beach was an engaging, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,88,409,410,408,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-brit-culture","8":"category-britney","9":"category-celebrity","10":"category-freud","11":"category-los-angeles","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}