Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress." The kindly psychoanalyst offers her some open-sesame seeds of wisdom-be permissive. At play's end, everyone is (Freud should pardon the expression) well adjusted...
...Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry, portrayed without much psychological insight by Montgomery Clift...
Natural Affection, by William Inge, has the impact of a tabloid shocker edited by Freud. As dramatic art the play fades out with the curtain's fall, but Kim Stanley's acting, Tony Richardson's direction, and John Lewis' hot-and-cool jazz score make it boil with sensual excitement...
...indifferent .. . Something comes through, writing this way." Durrell can't see it. "Really corny and deeply embarrassing ... and worst of all pretentious," he wrote, and added that he cannot abide "the emptiness of this generation of self-pitying crybabies .. . God or Zen is simply a catchword, as Freud was in our time...
...efforts to Orientalize Europe's recent social and intellectual history are puzzling. He may be "devoted to Truth and all that," but what are Westerners to make of his theory of Naziism and Communism, which has Hitler representing the male principle and Stalin the female? What would Freud himself make of Rama's explanation of psychoanalysis in terms of the Indian rope trick? Or Madeleine's gallant effort to see origins of the myth of the Holy Grail in the begging bowl of an Indian holy...