Word: analysand
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...Unmarried Woman-had a lock on the '70s sensibility. This, one could feel, was the way the American upper middle class attempted to face the new demands of sexual and racial equality. And this was the way a sympathetic comic artist, reporting from the inside of the analysand wonderland, could transform these demands and dreams into engaging movie narratives. But when Mazursky tries to Say It All about modern life, his voice can turn strident. His valued collaborators, the actors, can lose their charm and become stick figures, animated ideograms. And his characters plunge deep into their obsessions...
Nevertheless, the men and women who laid the foundations of "the talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...
...analysis in precisely the same way that she uses men: as a crutch for her own queasy personal indentity to steady itself and steer by. And worse, she doesn't know that she has done this. With her mind a muddle of criss-crosses she pictures herself a rebel analysand...
...King Kong, introduced as an adjunct professor of art history at Rutgers, enters and "all of the guests uttered loud exclamations of fatigue and disgust, examining the situation in the light of their own needs..." Poor old psychoanalysis gets its lumps again in The Sandman. The lover of the analysand writes a very convincing letter to the analyst, arguing respectfully that "Joy is not Susan's bag," and that she really would rather use the money to buy a piano...
...book is more important to understanding the new perspective than Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, published in 1962. It is an ambitious, cerebral work about a generous, brave and intelligent woman named Anna Wulf, a writer, leftist, divorcee, analysand who, like the author, emigrated from South Africa to London. Anna thinks of herself as "a free woman," independent of marriage contracts and numerous other social conventions, really interested only in people "who have tried the frontiers...