Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freud's theory that the sick man withdraws his libido back upon his own ego, Dr. Wertham says: "My libido certainly was withdrawn . . . my interest decidedly restricted [to] my immediate situation...
...could "explain anything to anyone." Just before the curtain went up, Playwright Joad stepped out on stage and informed the critics: "It's an awful bad play. If I were you I'd go see the film across the street." After listening to assorted maunderings on marriage, Freud, religion, the machine age and Bernard Shaw, the critics wished they had taken Joad's advice...
...music, lyrics, and dancing have been are woven together in the ballet to turn out several delightful sequences. Advice to the lovelorn waxes hysterically historical when Irene Manning, struggling to make up her mind between two men, is given advice by three sexperts, Plato, Freud, and Voltaire, who step down from their poses as statues to sing their solutions to her problem...
Fortunately for Spellbound, Bergman smuggles her pathological hero upstate to her teacher and friend-cantankerous old Dr. Michael Chekhov (actor-director nephew of the late, great Anton) who resembles a kindly Sigmund Freud and so expertly milks his lines for humor that he steals scene after scene from Bergman's tense seriousness and Peck's dazed somnambulism...
Nearly every psychologist is forced to modify Freud's theories of sexual determinism. . . . Your Medicine editor exposes nothing but his own folly when he equates Jung and Adler with Freud as the "Big Three" of psychoanalysis, and writes of the Freudian "monotheism" as though it were a slightly faded joke...