First novel, with its defects

It seems to me that this is the first novel by Philippe Grimbert, the psychoanalyst. The style (very clean and precise) and history have it all: a married man who built his family, becomes obsessed with a small child's dress, he buys, admire, hiding his wife .. . until she discovers. This is attractive because strange, atypical. The problem: it feels a little too much too soon, the psychoanalytic study behind until resolution, and to the detriment of the novel. Makes you wonder if this is not the case of a patient Grimbert that gave meaning to write this novel.