expurgation

Doris Lessing writes in the preface to The Golden Notebook:

This theme of 'breakdown', that sometimes when people 'crack up' it is a way of self-healing, of the inner self's dismissing false dichotomies and divisions, has of course been written about by other people, as well as by me, since then. But this is where, apart from the odd short story, I first wrote about it. 

It's interesting....The Golden Notebook is famous as a feminist book, but Lessing points out that, when the book was published, no one saw what she identified above as the central theme that it is, because reviewers - both positive and negative - jumped to the conclusion that it was about the war between the sexes.