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Since Crazy in Berlin, critics and scholars have been trying to make Carlo Reinhart into Berger's alter ego. Retorts the author: "The only thing my character and I share is my Army serial number and a few facts of early life." Like Reinhart, Berger is Ohio-born, his German-French-Irish father was a business manager of the Cincinnati school system. The 105-lb. sophomore played 15 seconds of varsity football for Lockland High when "we were leading about 40-0." And like Reinhart, Berger served in the Army Medical Corps during the Berlin occupation. The aspiring novelist...
...Question: In today's theater, what keeps swelling like a star's ego...
Updike's continuing interest in Harry Angstrom has led some to suspect that Rabbit is an alter ego, the author's version of what he himself could have become had he not left Shillington, Pa., for Harvard and a glittering literary career. "Well," Updike laughs, "I'm a good deal shorter than he is" (Rabbit is 6 ft. 3 in.; his creator 6 ft.). They differ in other ways too; the attraction seems to be one of opposites...
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...
...cell in Everett, Wash., under 24-hour guard, refusing to eat. His lawyer says he will try to starve himself to death, and marshals are prepared to force-feed him if necessary. Says Christman: "He didn't believe he was going to be captured. His self-image, his ego told him he wasn't going to be. Now he is faced with the reality of the cell. That's a big adjustment for someone with a makeup like this...