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...Innocents. This psychiatric chiller, based on The Turn of the Screw, owes as much to Sigmund Freud as it does to Henry James, but the photography is wonderfully spooky and the heroine (Deborah Kerr) exquisitely kooky...
...Freud is not mocked. Next morning, on the subway, the smell and pressure of flesh make her sick with disgust. Dread like suppuration oozes from the deep, unmedicated wound in her mind. She sinks into fevered apathy, and one day in a daze almost jumps off-does it always have to be a bridge? Anyway, a big dumb slob of a grease monkey (Ralph Meeker) grabs her just in time...
...away from the animal world. She escapes to the forest, only to discover that it rejects her new body. She escapes again to shack up with a feeble-minded woodcutter and returns to embarrass the prissy Richwick with her uninhibited advances (in a satirical switch, Vercors has Richwick study Freud in order to give Sylva some inhibitions). But the major gap that separates human from animal mentality is man's conscious awareness of his own existence. Eventually, Sylva makes the leap, and from the frightening moment when she discovers herself as an individual entity separate from her environment, Sylva...
Conceived as a series of witty letters to a friend, Book of the It offers an unsystematic presentation of the It (the German Es), a concept which underwent radical changes appearing in systematic form with Freud...
...contrast with Freud proves instructive. For Freud, the Id was that component of the pysche containing primitive emotional impulses which the human ego seeks to gratify without trespassing upon the demands of the (conscience). Groddeck's It, on the other hand, has power even over what Freud calls the ego, which it created. For while Goddeck recognizes that we sense the "I" to stand over and against the IT, he repudiates the existance of an "I": ["I am by no means I, but a continually changing form in which the IT displays itself, and the 'I' feeling...