Word: freude
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand, and his brain knew no compromise. His was the utterance of impulses turned as of water into wine by memories and always uncensored. He will live beyond this generation to a better understanding by the next, because his was romance unbiased by the influence of Freud. "Give me back the image of my beautiful Goddess" as Andreyev says in "He Who Gets Slapped", was not the cry of a crass materialist. His cosmic dream was to see the time when our civilization would be saved. He taught and believed unfailingly that life is love...
...Emperor Jones" is a short play--no audience could endure its intensity through three full acts. The program is filled out with a curtain-raiser, Susan Glaspell's "Suppressed Desires", a good-natured satire on the Freud-mania. It is full of humor, but on Tuesday night Boston's ponderous intellect was moved to laughter only twice
...such an age, Freud, naturally, is extremely popular. It remains for Mr. Train to perpetrate the culminative absurdity by introducing Freud into a fairy tale. In a "Song for Children and Others," the author instructs his audience that "fairy stories are not by Grimms and Andersens, as the common legend runs, but are built up out of the subconscious wishes of children. But if you want to find out more about that, you must ask Freud, who, no doubt, knows more about fairy tales than most of us. . ." I suppose that we may soon overhear from the nursery, "Now, Mary...