Foreword
The inner trappings of the individual personality are still largely a mystery. The history of psychology is, in part, a record of the many different approaches to understanding the room without doors that is the human psyche. Only the outward manifestations are apparent, in the often baffling behavior of ourselves and those around us.
Laura Seldon, a quiet, reserved librarian lives in a large, comfortable apartment with Clyde, her teenaged nephew. The beautiful, intense, and somewhat repressed young woman has learned to live with her loneliness, and to do without male companionship.
But her existence, long defined by monotonous and unvarying routine, is torn asunder by a chain of uncanny and unforeseen events. Laura was to have revealed to her a side of life never even hinted at in all her years of life experience, nor in the books she had read. The most significant disclosures were not those concerning others and the world around her. On the contrary, most startling of all were discoveries about herself: things buried and heretofore untapped, deep in her own nature.
CAPTIVE AUNT is the bizarre record of one woman's journey to untried realms of experience. It is also an interesting psychological study of an individual caught between the norms of society and the yearnings of her own inner psyche.
-The Publisher