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...certain that there was once a man called Freud. He lived in Vienna from 1860 to 1938, and by using a new therapeutic technique called psychoanalysis, he evolved a radical theory of human personality based on the importance of early childhood and its persistence as a state of mind in everyone. But. as Auden has remarked, Freud has been transmogrified into "a whole climate of opinion...
...theories have always been freely -sometimes wildly-adapted in art and literature. But most of Freud's own followers limited his legacy by insisting at least as firmly as he did that only the early years of life are substantially formative. The Freudian disciple who can be credited with broadening the original theory and restoring its vitality is a mild, German-born analyst and teacher named Erik Erikson. His now famous notion that a man's whole lifetime moves through a series of discernible and crucial stages grew largely out of Erikson's own personal development. That...
...life span beyond physical boundaries; the Judeo-Christian tradition represents the most elaborate and most convincing attempt to defy the natural limits of life. The attempt to extend life has found perhaps its most convincing semi-scientific justification in the work of C.G. Jung, the psychologist who broke with Freud to become a mystic...
...attempts to create a life after death; the creative, in which he attempts to build monuments to himself through his works; the sense developed by some, like the Shintoists, who see themselves as a part of nature, surviving in the natural mode after the individual death; and, finally, what Freud called the "oceanic feeling," the sense of psychic ecstasy surpassing life and death...
...Hatter, and the Queen of Hearts, and the Cheshire Cat-all the fond friends of generations of children. But in this Alice, the prattling antic chums from childhood cast shadows that are dark, deep and unsettling. The shadows invade the characters and dye them in the colors of Freud, and Jung, and Kafka, and Dali, and Antonin Artaud, who conceived the Theater of Cruelty. Innocence has been lost, assuredly, but a revelation has been gained as the audience is taken on a journey through the murky, quirky labyrinth of the human psyche. Alice is an exemplary instance...