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A note on my Self-Analysis. I’m not doing it a la Horney.{{refn|In 1942, [[w:Karen Horney|Karen Horney]] published ''Self-Analysis'', which ...machine. The same technique like the bed of society (the bed of Bluebeard{{refn|Mailer confuses Bluebeard with [[w:Procrustes|Procrustes]], a son of [[w:Po

{{ins|Perhaps}} The secret of Marilyn Monroe’s{{refn|Mailer’s biography of [[w:Marilyn Monroe|Monroe]] (1926-62), ''[[Marilyn:

Wild thought. The atom bomb may actually have kicked off hipsterism.{{refn|{{NM}} was perhaps the first writer to apprehend the causal links between t

...satisfaction until the hangover comes—the homeostatic urges (homeodynamic{{refn|In a physiological sense, '''homeostasis''' is the normal condition of the ...by homeodynamism. Thus guilt and shame are not close—''They are Polar''.{{refn|In the margin, Mailer wrote “{{ins|Rewrite}}” indicating the entire ent

...rresolute, tender, anxious, vulnerable, earnest, and Jewish middle-class.{{refn|In ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' (1968), {{NM}} states that the only part

Nat Halper.{{refn|A long-time art dealer in Provincetown, Nathan “Nat” Halper (1907-1983)

...novel, ''[[Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/60|Antacid Analgesique]]''.{{refn|Pondered and discussed for years, this behemoth was never written, one of s

Steve Allen{{refn|A multi-talented composer and comedian, [[w:Steve Allen|Allen]] (1921-2000)

...r other writings of this kind you can find. Huxley’s ''Devils of Loudun''{{refn|A nonfiction account by [[w:Aldous Huxley|Aldous Huxley]] (1894-1963) of th

...n is a man in woman’s envelope. The man is a woman in man’s envelope—Toby{{refn|Toby Schneebaum was a homosexual neighbor of Mailer’s.}} for instance. ...active unisexual is the most difficult to alter. Gore Vidal for example.{{refn|{{NM}} met [[w:Gore Vidal|Gore Vidal]] (1925-2012) in 1952, and their lives

...elf leaping ahead in my mind—or arguing fiercely as if you were present.”{{refn|See the letter dated [[Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner ...everything created is a dead end unless it serves to stimulate the artist{{refn|{{NM}} never stopped stating that it was the work of other artists that gav

...seless as well, and time deprived of cause and effect had come to a stop.{{refn|Mailer also makes the existential argument here that “death being causele ...then who could ignore the most hideous of questions about his own nature?{{refn|Mailer’s logic leads then to this inescapable conclusion, phrased here as

...said, “Reik, you want to be a big man, make your mark, piss in one spot!”{{refn|An American psychologist, [[w:Theodore Reik|Theodore Reik]] (1888-1969) was

...let you know that there’s no news on the big thing yet. I’ve submitted it{{refn|''[[The Deer Park]]''.}} simultaneously to Knopf and Random House (please d ...ch I believe is pretty big. It’s the old thing I discovered from Lipton’s{{refn|Marijuana.}} that tremendous truth is to be found in the cliché if you cra

The breakup with Lulu{{LJ:Lulu}} at Dorothea O’Faye’s party:{{refn|The long paragraph following these words describing how Lulu’s life had b ...we were left apart, she on her mountain peak, I to wander the valleys.}}{{refn|The {{ins|highlighted text}} indicates Mailer’s handwritten additions to

...the rational saint sent out to find the good in monsters and psychopaths.{{refn|A prophetic statement. {{NM}}’s fictional heroes and biographical subject

...am thinking today. Thus, the meaningless beginning of Chap. 16, by McLeod{{refn|William McLeod is a former communist “hangman” who renounces Stalinism,

...read him. (That is I never read more than a hundred pages of ''Ulysses'',{{refn|At Harvard, {{NM}} read up through “Calypso,” the fourth chapter of Jam

Perhaps the reason Susy{{LJ:Susan}} was so flat with Millie{{refn|A friend and distant cousin of {{NM}}’s, Millie Brower had the lead in hi

Homeostasis and sociostasis.{{refn|{{NM}} presents this struggle as a crucial dialectic: the thesis is '''soci ...tasis. War in that sense is not the health of the state (Randolph Bourne){{refn|A progressive thinker, [[w:Randolph Bourne|Bourne]] (1886-1918) wrote an an