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...complained Woody Allen in the movie Play It Again, Sam. Allen was one of them. "If I only knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...
...realize when she says in a defense against those who would scoff at her lack of documentation, "This is the inevitable peril for anyone who seeks to discuss the world through the medium of his or her own senses"--requires some kind of evidence to support theories. True, Freud may not have had statistics, but at least his contributions were not descriptions of general social phenomena, and his work was based on personal exploration of his field. If no social theorists offered evidence to support their ideas, then the only thing which could persuade anyone would be emotions--which...
...guardian of the nation's self-image. In a column called "Nashville, the motion picture, tries--but fails--to tell what's wrong with America," Kraft points out the danger of trying to sum up the country. Indeed, "the analytic tools shaped by the likes of Marx and Freud have come to grief trying to define what's wrong." Leading into an interpretation of the film, he writes that "the film's view of the nation's flaws is so general and so wrong that it seems useful to identify the weakness in the argument...
...goes to his grave and Thaw to an insane asylum. But Doctorow has his own plans for Evelyn. Down from her red velvet swing, she drifts to the immigrant slums of New York's Lower East Side, where her social consciousness is raised by anarchist Emma Goldman. Sigmund Freud confronts the pleasure principle at Coney Island and cannot get back to Vienna fast enough...
...Jail was my school," says King. "I came out armed and dangerous. Armed with wisdom and knowledge. I read Aristotle and Homer. I got into Sigmund Freud. That almost blew my mind. I've been taught by Hegel, Kant, Gibran, Fanon and Samuelson. Man, I love Bill Shakespeare. He was some bad dude...