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...Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the Viennese papa of psychiatry. Montgomery Clift does fairly well as Freud, but sometimes looks more like a patient than a psychiatrist. Susannah York plays a hysteric...
...Freud. It's a fighting word. Two decades after his death, the papa of psychiatry is still assiduously abused as an intellectual Bluebeard who ravaged the soul of modern man in the name of unmitigated sex. Yet he is also hailed as the Columbus of the unconscious who discovered a new world in the depths of the human mind. Which Freud is the real Freud-Bluebeard or Columbus? Director John Huston plumps for Columbus, and he tells why in this taut intellectual thriller...
Hysterics, when Freud (Montgomery Clift) begins to study them, are scorned by neurologists as silly women who act up to get attention, suffer at worst from a "wandering womb." Freud doubts the diagnosis, suggests that hysteria proves the existence of unconscious thoughts. Most of his colleagues laugh in his face, but Dr. Josef Breuer (Larry Parks) describes a hysteric named Cecily (Susannah York) who relieved a symptom simply by talking about what caused it. Freud takes over the case. And so begins a vastly exciting drama of detection, in which the audience simultaneously sees a lurid mystery unfold...
Most Americans have been touched by Freud's great work-some by taking psychiatric treatment, many by observing its effects in others, many more by living in a cultural climate fraught with Freudian ideas. Familiarity may breed some contempt: the film at times seems quaintly elementary. Furthermore, no competent modern psychiatrist accepts the theory that most neuroses take a sexual provenance. Freud, like Columbus, mistook the new world he discovered for something it was not. Nevertheless, it was Freud who saw the way when all the world was blind, and who followed it where all men feared...
David and Lisa is a tribute much more deeply touching: a story of two terrified children, lost in the deep black mine of the mind, who are found there by the means that Freud discovered and are led back to life by the bright red thread of love...