The Art of Not Living

On Laura Riding’s Anarchism is Not Enough, Jim Carrey’s Kidding, and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle

Not all artists are in perpetual conflict with their parents. But for those whose parental relationship is far from “good enough”—to use child psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott phrase—disillusionment with their progenitors can be the impetus of their artistic practice.

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