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...stand." So says Actor Nicol Williamson, talking about Sherlock Holmes, whom he plays in the forthcoming movie version of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. In the film, based on Nicholas Meyer's novel, the tweedy sleuth travels to Vienna and collaborates with - who else? - Sigmund Freud, portrayed by Alan Arkin. It's almost too good to be true, says Arkin. "I didn't know that after seven years in analysis, you get to play Freud...
...clinician, Jung pioneered in word-association techniques and dream analysis. The characters in his own dreams included Salome, Siegfried, Elijah, and once, Freud as an Austrian customs agent. Jung the theoretician made his name synonymous with such terms as archetype, introvert and extravert. Jung the religious healer believed the goal of psychiatry was to release and develop the divine within each individual. He broke with Freud by placing unsatisfied spiritual hungers rather than repressed sexuality at the center of personality disorders. Freudians could always counter that those pangs are just another symptom of stifled libido...
...Sigmund Freud was the Moses of Old Testament psychiatry, Carl Jung was its presumptive Joshua. Freud led modern man to the promising territory of the unconscious mind, but, destined to play the Wandering Jew, he was denied his share of milk and honey. Instead, there was the bitter pessimism of his Civilization and Its Discontents. Jung, the son of a Swiss Protestant clergyman, was born with a spiritual sweet tooth. He had a craving to heal the soul's wounds, to make a oneness of good and evil, darkness and light, masculinity and femininity...
Jung rushed in where Freud feared to tread: into an exotic Zion built on scientific method but furnished by the ages. There was a place in Jung's world for the philosophy of ancient Asia and classical Greece, for the Gnosticism of early Christianity, for medieval alchemy, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, for Romanticism and the occult...
Dream Pastiche. The thought is small comfort, and less justification. Louis Malle, director of Lacombe, Lucien and The Fire Within, is attempting in Black Moon some manner of dream pastiche, a symbolic fantasy of adolescence. The movie is like the ragged end of a halfhearted parlor game played by Freud and Lewis Carroll on a slow summer evening. The young girl's appearance and her slightly prissy ingenuousness come from the Alice books. So do the controlled flights of strangeness. Carroll's wit is lacking, however, and his sense of wonder...