the doctor hunter

it could never work…..in the repressive 1950s…..i’m a medical student who intends to specialize in surgery but is increasingly seduced by psychoanalysis…..you’re a doctor-hunter who is very clear about wanting a surgeon in particular….if we wed…..then the same feelings of inferiority that make psychoanalysis so compelling to me…..would be continually reinforced by your disappointment when you have to tell the other wives at the cocktail party that you’re a shrink’s wife instead of a surgeon’s………………..