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...prove his contention that there is no such thing as "no time for comedy," Behrman cites the story of Sigmund Freud's reaction when his apartment was looted by the Nazis. "How much did they take?" Freud asked. "$200." "That's more than I ever got for a visit," he replied...
...hero (Gary Cooper) is a sort of frontier Freud who can discharge a complex almost as fast as he can trigger a six gun. He sets up as a sawbones in a gold-mining camp, and pretty soon a pretty Swiss girl (Maria Schell), survivor of a stagecoach stickup, is brought in for treatment. He has no trouble healing her body-she is suffering from exposure, concussion, sun blindness. So then he sets out to heal her mind-she is suffering from the shock of seeing her father murdered by the bandits. As might be expected, the hero...
...Although Freud developed the hotly debated Oedipus complex from his feelings toward his mother, Fromm believes that he concealed their intensity even from himself. And while discovery of the "wish to remain attached to Mother" was a notable event, Freud destroyed its value by restricting it to instinctual desires. In analytic terms: "His own attachment to Mother was the basis of his discovery, and his resistance to seeing his attachment was the basis for the limitation and distortion of this very discovery...
...general, says Fromm. "Freud's aim was to found a movement for the ethical liberation of man, a new secular and scientific religion for an elite which was to guide mankind." What happened? His "messianic impulses" struck a response in followers who had no strong religious, political and philosophic convictions, but a hidden need for them. In "the movement" they found everything: "A dogma, a ritual, a leader, a hierarchy, the feeling of possessing the truth, of being superior to the uninitiated...
...strictures, Fromm sees Freud as "a truly great man." He concedes that "Western thought is impregnated with Freud's discoveries, and its future is unthinkable without the fruits of this impregnation." The trick is to cull the rotten fruit from the sound apples...