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...than the relative handful of patients treated by the thin cohort of psychoanalysts centered mostly in New York and Hollywood are the millions who are daily influenced, often unknowingly, by the penetration of Freudian theory. A social worker visiting a family with health and welfare problems looks for unhealthy father-son or mother-daughter relationships. The probation officer reporting on a juvenile delinquent discusses the family background with the court in terms of aggression and compensation. So does a truant officer. In Wheeling, W. Va. last week, Thomas Williams Jr., 14, was found legally sane, sentenced to life imprisonment...
...National Invitation Tournament at Aiken, S.C., last week after sweeping the Big Three match in New York, came home last Sunday with disappointing results. Numbers one and two on the team, Lucky Ludington and Dazzler Davis, were dropped out of the tourney in the first round by a famous father-son doubles combine, George and James Bostwick...
Philip Henderson's new biography of Samuel Butler expresses perfectly the new trend in paterology. It is also the first book on Butler in which the father-son relationship is examined coolly, justly and with malice toward none...
That, says Fromm, is the real Oedipus complex-the rebellion of every son against patriarchal authority. It is rooted in "man's legitimate striving for freedom and independence." That striving, when thwarted, results in a "destructive passion" which must be suppressed. The suppression, in turn, often leads to neuroses in later life. Freud believed that the mother-son Oedipus complex was inevitable. Fromm thinks that there is a way to avoid the father-son Oedipus complex: let parents be less domineering, and let them have more respect for a child's rights...
When he fell seriously ill that year his sports-cartoonist son Jim, then 33, filled in for him. Now father & son share the front-page spot, Cliff four times a week, Jim three. Few readers can tell their work apart. So far as they know, they are the only father-son team in U.S. cartoon history...