... to trade his warped brilliant conception of his possible victories in life for the grim if peaceful attrition of the analyst's couch. So his associational journey into the past is lived out in the theatre of the present, and he exists for those charged... An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer - Page 42 by Andrew Gordon - 1980 - 234 pages Limited preview -
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