Anais Nin turns again to psychoanalysis when she feels "fruitless anger" from frustration about the difficulties in publishing her work sapping her energy, doing her harm, corroding her. She doesn't feel she can publish her own books as she did in past because of the time it takes away from her writing.
Anais feels that life in Sierra Madre is dull, and life in New York is too full of activity, and there must be a third way she could live. She realizes she is dependent upon her husband for money, and this makes her feel helpless. She wants to achieve economic independence so that she can live her own life, but America does not seem to want to accept her work, which makes her bitter.
She visits Dr. Inge Bogner, a female psychoanalyst she can be more honest with because she is not trying to charm or seduce, to let off steam. She feels some peace and serenity and courage after these talks.
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