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DRAMA. The only survivors are the Pulitzer-prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...
DRAMA. The only survivors are the Pulitzer-prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, more or less how young Dr. Freud discovered psychoanalysis in three easy sessions; The Best Man, Gore Vidal's breathless but depthless dramatization of electoral politics; and A Taste of Honey, which mixes tenderness and bitterness in a raffish setting. Plus last season's The Miracle Worker, superb even without the original cast...
Break with Freud. Jung classified basic personality types as extraverts or introverts, then added a breakdown by function: "With perception, you know something is there. Thinking tells you what it is. Feeling tells you what it is worth to you or to others. And intuition tells what the damn thing comes from or goes to." Finally, in the persistence of religious movements throughout history, Jung saw an archetypal need for a religious attitude. A religion did not need to be formalized, he insisted; but to be emotionally healthy, a man must have made his peace with the unseen and perhaps...
...Freud? Nyet! Western psychiatrists who had been hoping to find the Russians tapering off in their single-minded adherence to the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of dog, bell and saliva fame, were disappointed. The delegation chief, Moscow's Dr. Andrei Vladimirovich Snezhnevsky, laid down the line uncompromisingly: "There has been no change in principle in our approach. The theory of Pavlov and its applications are still expanding in Russia...
...first wave of what might be called the Counter-Industrial Revolution. His obsession with myths, magic and symbols was a poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role. Far from having the gift of self-analysis, Yeats possessed instead a talent for endless self-dramatization. There are extended comments in the essays on Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, William Morris and Balzac, but one quickly discovers that these are pseudonyms for William Butler Yeats. Then there...