Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Religious Imagination (Bobbs-Merrill; $5.95), Rubenstein presents a historical and psychoanalytical study of how the Jewish religion has been a source of spiritual strength. The focus of his interest is the influences that shaped the Haggada-the body of legend and myth contained in the rabbinical Talmud. Rubenstein accepts Freud's thesis that the God of Genesis actually grew out of guilt felt for a "primal crime," in which primitive men cannibalistically devoured their fathers out of both jealousy and a desire to identify with them; in time, the father image was projected into the cosmos to alleviate inherited...
...Mourning. Lifton recalls that he once gave a lecture on Hiroshima to a group of psychiatrists; some of them later told him that they resented subsequent speakers who dealt with ordinary concerns. He notes that a similar reaction occurred after President Kennedy's assassination. To accomplish what Freud called "the work of mourning"-the process of coming to terms with loss-Americans remained glued to their TV sets, absorbing every detail of the killing and the funeral. When the stations returned to routine programming, many viewers felt annoyed and let down. The work of mourning had "opened them...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to midnight). Montgomery Clift as Freud...
...Freud offended the hierarchs of all faiths by his dismissal of religion as a neurosis, and psychoanalysis is still frowned upon by Austria's Roman Catholic Church, even when it is practiced by unswervingly Catholic psychiatrists. But Dr. Frankl's Jewishness is not held against him by Catholics as it was against Freud and Adler. In his system there is such a big place for religion that he is a favorite of Salzburg's Archbishop Franz Jachym, who endorses his writings. To the extent that the church accepts Frankl, the Freudians and Adlerians tend to reject...
...Schneider, currently the busiest and most versatile director both off-Broadway and on. Whether he groups his actors with a painter's eye or makes a scene spin like a boy's top, his direction is impeccable. The only flaws are in the play, which renders unto Freud the dramatic initiative and vision that should belong to the playwright...