Playing with Freud: Radical Narcissism and Intertextuality in Frame’s Intensive Care and Daughter Buffalo

Abstract

Up to a certain point, in Frame's version, their interaction retained an element of experimentation and even mutual appropriation: Frame served Money's professional curiosity, compassion and ambition; Money served Frame's need for recognition as a writer. But Frame's vulnerability became acutely exposed when Money, with the best intentions, inducted Frame into the mid-twentieth century New Zealand mental health system, setting off a chain of events climaxing in the now-iconic escape from a prefrontal leucotomy.