self-analysis

Jackson was not given to self-analysis, or at least not in any way that she was willing to share with the world.

The self-analysis, at times, has been more brutal than any pundit could muster on their angriest day.

But then Kubrick himself always resisted too much self-analysis.

I suppose that in dissecting the song with them, I was indulging in some self-analysis: trying to understand how a happy union of lyrics and musical notes could stay with me so meaningfully, for decades.

But this is the main takeaway from one of the most remarkable works of artistic self-analysis?