neurosis
November 13, 2009
- A Meditation On Marriage | Part Two | [AFTER SIX MONTHS OF MARRIAGE]It's been less than a year since I wrote the essay below [See Part One].I have been married since 4/20/09So... were my fears warranted or merely a reflection of my neurosis?I think there's a strong argument for the later, but I am not one to impose thoughts on a reader. So, you be the judge. Here's an excerpt from a previous ...
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August 7, 2009
- For something that's meant to be relaxing, sleeping can be incredibly hard work. There's no time like the early hours of the morning to magnify trifling troubles into insurmountable problems. My brain actively invents problems when I'm trying to sleep, and then won't shut up about them. What am I going to do about my 'problems' when it's 2AM and I'm meant to be asleep? The rational part of me ...
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June 23, 2009
- I confess: I am a terminal, untreatable catastrophist. The slightest setback, the oddest little twinge in my heart, a bump where there should be one, and my fears expand and billow up like a zeppelin (in this case, the Hindenberg).It might be brain chemistry or the fact that my childhood was, er, less than a happy one. I'll let the behaviorists hash that out with Steven Pinker. Whatever ...
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March 27, 2009
- “So, anyway,” Stanley asked. “Why DID you marry me?” They were folding wash at 2 a.m., wide awake, half-watching Turner Classic Movies. It was Fritz Lang Day and the station aired Clash By Night, the director’s gloomy 1952 Odets adaptation with Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and Paul Douglas. “Honey, do we have to do this again?” Rachel replied with a roll ...
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March 26, 2009
- Try as I might, practice as I will, I can't quite get rid of the tendency to slam shut a newspaper or turn off the computer when I read about another writer getting something that I want: a prize, a movie deal, another three-book deal, money, etc. I am a small, tired, low-functioning human being, and it takes all that I have to open up the damn paper and read the entire article. It takes an ...
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November 27, 2008
- Neurosis, as far as it could strike an isolated individual, can as well affect a whole group or a whole nation.At this moment, the clinical symptoms of individual neurosis become those of a whole group of persons. So during History, there are cyclic periods during which entire nations might sink into a collective madness. In these nations, psychologically disturbed people become the rule, while ...
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