When I was younger this meant my mom, whom after setting aside her career as an artist to raise 5 kids and nearly had (maybe did have at one point) a nervous breakdown from the lack of money, the accumulation of clutter and my argumentative nature. If I don't pick up that clutter someone else is going to have to. And maybe I can't articulate my guilt trips into clever phrases or pinpoint experiences but I can tell you that guilt taught me a thing or two.ġ. I got some pretty messed up voices going on in my head too, ya know. As a matter of fact some times I feel that Catholics and Jewish people think they have the market cornered on guilt, well, you know what? taint so. Growing up conservative/fundamentalist(?) Christian, I am no stranger to guilt. Now that I've, no doubt drawn you into the plot line and compelled you to pick up the book for yourself, let me share with you some of my personal thoughts on the book. Partial reconciliation with perceptions of all things Jewish I aim to please so here is my sincere attempt to tell you something about this book. And I'm wondering why would you want to know about the book when all you have to do is click on the little blurb about the book and then get on with the fascinating reading about.oh, say where I bought my milk last Tuesday or my fondest/most traumatic childhood memory, etc, etc.Īnd, yet. It's recently been brought to my attention that my book reviews frequently are not actually about the book. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship. 'The Puzzled Penis,' Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol.

Spielvogel 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful as a consequence of the patient's 'morality,' however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. 'Deliciously funny.absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious.a brilliantly vivid reading experience.' - The New York Times Book Review The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.

Portnoy's complaint first edition