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Asked once what makes people happy, Sigmund Freud replied, "Work and love." A strange answer from the man who invented the psychoanalyst's couch? Perhaps, but in his day, doctors could offer little more for patients suffering from anxiety or depression. And when faced with intractable mental illnesses like schizophrenia, they had to resort to brute force: inducing seizures and comas with chemicals and electric shocks, infecting patients with malaria to provoke brain-clearing fever, or slicing away parts of the brain's prefrontal cortex. In general, desperation guided treatment of the deranged...
...bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. Buy by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading—we are, after all, getting...
...Herbert Pocket (Great Expectations, 1946); Agatha d'Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets, 1949); Professor Marcus (The Ladykillers, 1955); Colonel Nicholson (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) General Yevgraf Zhivago (Dr. Zhivago, 1965); Adolf Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973); Professor Godbole (A Passage to India, 1984); Sigmund Freud (Lovesick, 1983); George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1980); Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977); King Charles I (Cromwell, 1970); Prince Feisal (Lawrence of Arabia...
Even more old-fashioned is that for all her hard squints into the typewriter to get the story right, she made the Big Bargain. She could breeze through the halls of power, even in her 20s, and she could phone the President because--paging Dr. Freud--she was beautiful. And she knew how to work her beauty as well as her stopwatch. Just listen to one of the letters to her parents about the events lined up for the week ahead. "Monday I will be with Senator Scoop Jackson for dinner. Tuesday Senator Keating has invited me to a party...
...Even more old-fashioned is that for all her hard squints into the typewriter to get the story right, she made the Big Bargain. She could breeze through the halls of power, even in her 20s, and she could phone the President because - paging Dr. Freud - she was beautiful. And she knew how to work her beauty as well as her stopwatch. Just listen to one of the letters to her parents about the events lined up for the week ahead. "Monday I will be with Senator Scoop Jackson for dinner. Tuesday Senator Keating has invited me to a party...