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...ANOTHER LEVEL, it raises the question of "Film vs. Freud," whether therapy should be the subject matter of movies. Well, it's dangerous: remember Interiors? Whether or not, in these matters, the patient should minister to himself, it's certainly better for art when he does. Watching most psychotherapy in action is not all that different from watching a colostomy, or any other doctor-work; among other things, it makes for lousy dialogue, and Ordinary People is full of it, endless psychobabbled colloquys between Conrad and his psychiatrist (Jewish, of course) who smokes cigarettes, drinks bottomless cups of coffee, wears...
...honorary degree (from Princeton) on the same platform with Bob Dylan. During his 85 years, Walter Lippmann came to know twelve U.S. Presidents personally and nearly everyone else who mattered in the 20th century. He consorted with poets and politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle with Charles de Gaulle. He also played Ping-Pong with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg...
...years have been so busy making up the truth that they have not had much time for fiction. The names of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote spring immediately to mind, along with their catchy formulations, "nonfiction novel" and "the novel as history." Mailer, nurtured on emanations from Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard and Wilhelm Reich, can be an inspired explainer of the modern cloven spirit. Capote, the old Southern boy, steeped in regionalism and the oral tradition, is the storyteller, the Mother Goose of U.S. writing...
...less serious ailments, the dispensaries have their own form of talk therapy. At No. 14, these take place in a large room lined with seven couches, beneath portraits of Pavlov and Freud, the contemporary giants of modern psychology. Pointing to Freud, Dr. Passer smiles and says...
...Anna Freud, psychoanalyst, author--Doctor of Science...