Word: freuded
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...disciple who betrayed Christ goes on trial, and his character witnesses range from Sigmund Freud to Satan himself. Guirgis's Shavian fantasy is not a jokey stunt, but a bold, blasphemous examination of the notion of forgiveness. Philip Seymour Hoffman directed a riveting -- and unjustly ignored -- production for off-Broadway's Labyrinth theater, sparked by Eric Bogosian's slick turn as the Devil...
...belabors the psychoanalytical connection between sex and violence. In one particularly egregious scene, Kauffman suffers from vivid flashbacks of the Munich massacre while making love to his wife. Spielberg cuts the scene so that Kauffman climaxes coincides with the terrorists executing their hostages—I doubt even Freud would invite such a literal correlation. Thankfully, such missteps are few and far between. Impressively, Spielberg is able to maintain the film’s momentum even after the protagonists have ended their assignment. Kauffman’s reflection on the psychic cost of protracted violence is even more engaging than...
Special note needs to be given to an attack of slug creatures that would have given Freud nightmares. The image of one of them swallowing a man whole by flowing over his head, is among the most terrifyingly psycho-sexual sights this reviewer has seen on film in a long time...
...bloodshed and racial obsessions, its hallucinatory edges and its complicated freedoms. The March is a more straightforward book than Ragtime. You won't find scenes here quite like the ones in that book in which J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford meet to trade views on the supernatural or Sigmund Freud takes Carl Jung to Coney Island (something that, by the way, actually occurred). But if the feelings this time flow more strictly from the facts, they flow abundantly all the same. At one point the thoughtful Emily defends herself against the merely rational Dr. Sartorius. "I do not reduce life...
Walker, who chairs the women's caucus of the American Psychological Association, knows the conditions under which masochism is casually diagnosed in many women--she is an expert on battered wives. Freud thought women were naturally masochistic. Weighed down by this intellectual baggage, feminists say, therapists often speculate that victims of wife beating stay with their mates because of a secret liking for punishment, failing to observe that the women are demoralized or terrorized...