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Freudians, of course, do just that. In their view, agoraphobia, like all phobias, is a symbolic expression of deeply threatening sexual and/or aggressive urges. One difference, says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Walter Stewart, is that agoraphobics are "generally angrier and sicker" than other phobics. Why are most agoraphobics female? Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson believes that men generally deal with anxiety by compulsively facing it. "If they are afraid of violence, they may become addicted to football, play it, see it again and again. Women are basically phobic; men are basically counterphobic...
...Angeles Psychoanalyst Martin Grotjahn thinks he knows the cause of the malady. Says he: "People who have strong needs to love or fight are more prone to writer's block." Most psychiatrists believe that, just as there is no single explanation for murder or theft, there is no one cause for writer's block. But Grotjahn, who discusses the problem in his book Beyond Laughter, believes hostility is the fundamental reason. Writing is an aggressive demand for attention. It can be blocked when a writer projects his anger onto reviewers and readers. "It's the fear...
...fact, Herman Melville was so wounded by critics that he wrote no fiction at all for 30 years. Says Psychoanalyst Yale Kramer, who is studying Melville's life: "He behaved like a child stubbornly remaining silent in a passive attempt at revenge." But even good reviews can bring on writer's block; they tend to paralyze by awakening great expectations. As Author Cyril Connolly, a part-time blockee, expressed it: "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising...
Rosen quotes a local psychoanalyst who defines psychobabble as "just a way of using candor in order not to be candid" or, in other words, a vocabulary of terms lifted from psycho-analytic theory and popularized into meaninglessness. Think, for example, how often you use the words paranoid, fixation, neurotic, depressed, or manic when describing acquaintances. Such catch-phrases should be seen as "the expression not of a victory of de-humanization but as its latest and very subtlest victory over...
...stepfather's first cousin") is to the novel-of-manners born. Credentials include Groton, Yale, U S Navy and Wall Street, where the 59-year-old author is an estates and trusts lawyer. What better perch from which to observe human nature. Matters can be hidden from a psychoanalyst that can never be hidden from the man who draws up one's will. Perhaps because they usually survive to become the inheritors, women have been especially strong characters in Auchincloss's fiction. "After the age of about 40," he once observed "an American woman has a better...