Apropos of James Lileks’ comments on Woody Allen (via Norm), I have two comments:
First, I proudly present the last paragraph of a letter I had published in the LRB some years back, on the subject of psychoanalysis (I don’t remember what I was writing in response to):
What comes through clearly when you study Freud, amusingly for someone supposed to have probed more deeply into the human mind than any other thinker, is his remarkable lack of self-awareness. What about his grotesque decision to psychoanalyse his own daughter, the hapless Anna? I’m reminded of Woody Allen, who took as his lover a girl to whom he’d been a father, and failed to see what all the fuss was about. It takes years of psychoanalysis to get that obtuse.
And second, I saw the man himself last Thursday evening in Belgrave Square. He was standing on a corner with a couple of women, one I’m sure his young wife, looking like he was sizing up shots for his next movie.
Just thought you’d be interested….
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