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...Watson, come here"). Dr. Winternitz himself was in a state of passionately transferred loyalties. Born a Jew, he had become what Freud, in his study on the technique of wit, called ante-Semitic. "When my mother died, he thought he would improve his social position by marrying a Whitney, but I don't think he did," Mary says drily, leaving no doubt as to her opinion of the high life at New Haven, Conn., which the Winternitz-Whitney family maintained...
While taking peyote, Weston started having homo-sexual fantasies, which, after he quit the drug, disappeared. "But I am very glad that I had this experience for it has taught me to understand homosexuals a little better. It has also taught me why Freud was so fond of quoting the old proverb, 'Nothing human is alien to me.' "Before Weston finishes, he manages to construe a few more turgid moralisms for readers in the "square world...
...home and be depressed about not working. Instead she would go to the vast Manhattan offices of the M.C.A. talent agency and be depressed there. "I would put on my most Villagey clothes-and cry loud enough for everyone to hear. I'd talk about suicide and Freud. I made sure they knew me. I would act crazy. They sent me up for jobs to get me out of their office. Sometimes it was just a two-week stint on a soap opera, but I worked. I can't stand actors who sit around on their rumps waiting...
...squalls at them cheerfully, "you guys are gonna drive me nuts! Har! Har! Har!" Oh, that Peck really breaks the boys up, but he puts them all together again with sodium pentothal and sympathy. One after another they go from snakepit to cockpit, secure in the knowledge that Freud is their copilot...
...there any Freudian theory you find unacceptable?" one spectator asked the tall child psychologist. Spock answered that he only found fault with several modern interpretations of Freud. "I can never get over how smart Freud was," Spock added, "not to have tried to advise parents how to bring up their children...