In this fairly outrageous and definitely funny story of Jake and his lost libido, Kingsley Amis takes some well-aimed swipes at the crankier fringes of psychotherapy and at sex--1970s style.
Contents
This is it -- The farting ploughboy -- Domestic interior -- Thunderball -- Business-head and Carter-face -- Focusing session -- Are you disturbed? -- Informal basis -- Guilt and shame -- Wanker! -- Academic study -- I have heard of your paintings too -- Can I take you out to dinner? -- Sexual act -- At Mr Shyster's -- At Mr Shyster's (continued) -- Exposing Ed -- Eve's thing -- That lazy feeling -- Girls everywhere -- I can help you -- Phallus's end -- Extreme bourgeois puritan conventionality -- Something I want to show you -- Increased insight -- What, and miss television? -- Smudger turns up trumps -- Physical after all.
