This fiction hammers home the outrage of child abuse with its ruinous consequences, much of it disguised behind the well meaning efforts of staid and sober families.
Child Abuse Survivor To Maddened Adult
Infidelity, cheap piety, aggression scar the pages upon which a maddened adult child abuse survivor manages a codependent, workaholic, acoa, alienated life of self hate.
Self Actualization a Key Character Foil
Self actualization seems at hand for Caló heroes and heroines until they are foiled, flung to ladder's bottom rung to awaken among the vindictive and must consider their quest again.
Jung Psychology Brings Metaphysical Book to Life
Carl Jung's spirit drives this novel where dreams and fears of oneness press his literary archetypes toward personal transformation, self awareness or personal change.
with a ruinous personality. His life is a
waiting room for his childhood to sneak into the present
and destroy him. The loss of his wife and his university
position loom before him. Yet he neither understands why
these losses are imminent nor recognizes the troubles
that precipitated them. In a bitter-end effort, his wife
lures him into a therapy called Memory Work.
He accedes, and begrudgingly begins to write. In a cabin
upon the Coosa River, with neighbors out of the book of
the too familiar, he finds that past and present merge
into a lethal profile of himself—a womanizer, a lounge lover with an
alcoholic personality tending toward alcoholism,
desperately seeking codependencies to support his
cloistered academic world. Still, with a sense of
stoicism and raillery, he shares with the reader his
memories of being stripped of ego, self-esteem,
spontaneity, creativity, and the ability to love, along
the road toward his disconnectedness and fears of oneness
as an adult. Infidelity, self righteousness, suicide, and
the masks of cruelty and abuse, scar the landscape over
which Phipp follows a trail of synchronicity in his
search to unravel his past, a twelve year old boy and a
timid old man his most potent therapists.
To feel alienation, disconnection, abandonment even when surrounded by family and the familiar - common emotions that lead to a mad chase for self acceptance.
Alcoholism Possible, Codependency Sure In Novel's Turbulence
Phipp Kearney's dive toward alcoholism is distilled from a complex of codependency, adult child of alcoholic patterns, addictive behavior and a determined spouse with an alanon attitude.
Evolution of the Alcoholic Found In Personal Loss
Phipp Kearney is becoming an alcoholic as he copes with child abuse, emotional abandonment, his infidelity and loss of self awareness.
Zolen Caló "Issues"
No love or lost love, love and lust confused, marriage spoiled breeding marital infidelity via adultery and alienation, and leading to grief and loss: Caló assaults these complex issues with an intent to bring them down to Planet Earth for the benefit of the everyday reader. These are reads that may find a place in English literature.
Spiritual
Growth
Versus
Impending Doom
Spiritual growth lingers as a sub-theme in Memory Work as Zolen Caló sends readers where no spiritual-healing self help book might: Into the heart of another's personal hell.