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What sounds like sentimentalized, kindergarten Freud is molded by Director Richard C. Sarafian and a talented cast into an uninsistent and evocative parable of childhood's end. Sarafian-a former TV director-has an eye for the feeling and texture of inanimate as well as living things. When the colonel searches a birdwatcher's guide for an entry, the book assumes an identity of its own; notes are scribbled in the margin, the pages are dirty and soiled, odd cards and scraps of paper are stuck between pages to mark essential passages. The characters, down to the most...
...Thomas Woodrow Wilson-A Psychological Study, by Sigmund Freud and William Bullitt, it is written: "When a man gives various unconvincing explanations of an act, one must suspect that the real reason for the act lies in the unconscious." Could this not also apply to Senator Kennedy's superego...
...performance since; it still touches off the same responses. To American eyes, the Czechs give Albee's Westchester an oddly Viennese aspect; the impression is compounded of walnut-and-fringed-lamps Gemütlichkeit and the beard of the leading actor, which makes him look exactly like Sigmund Freud. But the play in Prague compares well with productions elsewhere. It is done with subtlety and panache as well as political relevance. These also happen to be the chief characteristics of Prague's extremely vital and varied theater...
This same kind of delicacy and shame has forced an almost awesomely destructive set of sexual attitudes upon us. Whole generations of Americans were taught that their natural processes were unspeakably vulgar and, as everyone from Freud to Spock discovered and proved, these repressions forced all kinds of personal and social disorders upon us. Europeans have always laughed at us as "those people who only make love in the dark...
Despite the efforts of those of us over 30, the present young generation is learning what sex is really all about. The naked body and its natural functions are being openly displayed and discussed. The next generation will be healthier for it, and if Freud and all the others were right, then perversion and pornography will decline as honesty and understanding increase. A time will come when all of the "shocking" literature, plays and movies of this epoch will seem archaic and naive-and terribly boring. This is not "liberation" at all. It is the development of a true normalcy...