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...severe, too young nor too old. Her voice must be modulated into an aural approximation of the dress-for-success suit. Otherwise she will be thought - God forbid - too aggressive. She must seem tough enough to stand up to the Soviets without being tough enough to frighten Freud...
...artistic response to Freud's theories has enabled film directors to have a field day with movies exploring the human psyche. Hitchcock flicks have carved a niche for themselves in cinematographic history and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde school of screenplay has enabled writers like Steven King to probe the inner regions of the mind...
WHEN SIGMUND FREUD initially began inquiring into the nature of the human psyche, contemporaries passed him off as a sexual crackpot. And while many psychologists today are still wary of reducing all behavior to id, ego and superego, most professionals in the field concede that repressed behavior is fundamental to a well-functioning society...
...next book, The Great Thoughts, due out in April. Begun in 1960 after he finished his bestseller The Great Quotations, Thoughts is a compilation of highlights from the words and wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers. Tops in this cerebral hall of fame is Sigmund Freud, who gets 20 out of 750 pages, followed closely by Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. Any disgruntled illuminati who feel they were left out may yet turn up in Seldes' next book, tentatively titled Adventures with People: The Noted, the Notorious and the Three S.O.B.s...
...title refers to the wife's calling for a lost puppy, yet it is clear that hers is in truth a cri de coeur for the unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up. If this is the heartland, it is as seen by Freud: the husband lusts after the girl and fantasizes about her as the virtuous virgin that his wife was not; the wife acts kittenish even with the milkman; the girl selects lovers, then discards them. Middle age is portrayed as a time of aching sexual frustration, made more acute by the close...