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...DiCaprio fired guns called “Longswords” in that film version of Romeo and Juliet? Let Professor Marjorie Garber take your understanding of past and present one step further with a course that explores the interaction of Shakespeare’s plays with “Freud and Marx, Brecht and Beckett, film, contemporary politics, and American popular culture.” And you thought Henry V had nothing to do with the war in Iraq...
What exactly is the Easy Problem? It's the one that Freud made famous, the difference between conscious and unconscious thoughts. Some kinds of information in the brain--such as the surfaces in front of you, your daydreams, your plans for the day, your pleasures and peeves--are conscious. You can ponder them, discuss them and let them guide your behavior. Other kinds, like the control of your heart rate, the rules that order the words as you speak and the sequence of muscle contractions that allow you to hold a pencil, are unconscious. They must be in the brain...
...bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting...
...shoots into the sun, he gets lens flare. He induced Thomas Newman to write a lush symphonic score in something like the Max Steiner mode and encouraged his actors to perform in the old presentational manner, as if they'd never heard of Stanislavsky, much less Dr. Freud...
...Talented Mr. Ripley.) What's true about Colin's nature is that he's the man on the rise and on the make, with a practiced smile that can impress the cops and please the ladies. When he meets Madolyn, the shrink, he suavely spouts this apercu: "Freud said the Irish were the only people who were impervious to psychoanalysis." (The "impervious" is a lovely touch - it tells you Colin has rehearsed this line in his head - as is the oenophile's smoothness with which Damon spits out that mouthful of words.) The lies he has to tell...