BRAINS; BEATING ONE'S BRAINS OUT

laboring strenuously with the mind, often with a sense of having failed. Imagine a psychoanalyst beating his chops and his brains out, and so forth, in an office, and there's the pc on the couch, you see, and he's trying to find the pc's second dynamic withholds, you know? -See Checks, Withholds (10 Jan. 62)