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[LINK TO AUDIO CLIP] In Company, Sondheim used the click-buzz of the telephone as a leitmotif for urban neurosis; in Rent, Larson tries to pull something similar with his "Voice Mail" numbers, a series of a-cappella answering-machine messages.
(His best guess: a Freudian essay on lovelessness and neurosis.)
Peanuts, with its neurosis, unrequited love, and melancholy was newsprint Woody Allen.
There are the mutual accusations of denial or neurosis, with each parent accusing the other either of refusing to face their children's problems or of making too much of them.
Allen still thinks along the same lines as in Manhattan (1979), where the open and inarticulate teen-ager Mariel Hemingway stood for purity, a man's hope of salvation, while such overeducated, older types as Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep (the lesbian ex-wife) were like sucking swamps of neurosis and infidelity.