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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth. This frenzied monologue by a sex-obsessed Jewish bachelor on a psychiatrist's couch becomes a comic novel about the absurdly painful wounds created by guilt and puritanism...
...psychiatrist jabbed his finger to simulate Sirhan's cheap .22-cal. revolver: "It was very dramatic and very real-the convulsive movement, the grabbing of the gun and the expression on his face of the most violent contorted rage. Then there was a momentary pause and he started to choke. He was actually re-experiencing the choking when they held him down and took away the gun. He was gasping for breath...
PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth, is a comic sex novel of the absurd, told in the form of a frenzied monologue by a 33-year-old Jewish bachelor on his psychiatrist's couch...
...mounted my bicycle and pedaled rapidly along the cobblestone streets to alert Dr. Hadelin Rademaekers, the medical director. The 74-year-old psychiatrist smiled, patted my arm and told me not to worry. "My malades are not so sick they cannot distinguish between a mere film and reality," he assured me. Still worried, I hung around outside the theater that night. Finally, the people emerged-laughing and giggling as though they had seen a comedy. The old gent was right: his sick ones were too sane to be fooled by Hollywood's make-believe...
Beyond such folderol, astrology has been taken seriously by serious students. They believe that the ancient religion and superstition from which it springs are embedded in the unconscious of modern man. Psychiatrist Carl G. Jung referred to it as a "scientia intuitiva," and often had horoscopes cast for his patients. The idea was not to predict their futures but to call attention to elements that might or might not lie in their personalities. A horoscope showing excessive fatherlove and tendencies toward sadism, he realized, could be used to provoke talk, self-analysis and perhaps insight. "Today," wrote Jung, "rising...