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...time is one of ferment and potential rebirth. This is so precisely because it is a time full of chaos ... It was only natural that Sigmund Freud should at the beginning of his career have thought of the irrational aspects of-the human personality as chaotic and potentially dangerous powers ... It did not occur to him that chaos in itself may represent a very positive and fertile current of life. For the people of the Old Testament, especially in the creation story, the question was not: 'Why is there chaos?' but rather: 'Why is there order?' For them, order...
...film biography of Sigmund Freud, Director John (The Misfits) Huston modestly admitted that the work "has given me a new insight into the minds of some of the stars I have directed." Pressed for an example. Huston promptly picked on thrice-married Marilyn Monroe. "I think her big handicap is that she is unable to live up to her sex symbol status in real life. In fact, I don't think she really cares very much about...
Poet (and "Mature Bohemian") Ken neth Rexroth, 55, who wrote the libretto, knew that it was "potentially full of corn." but did it because "I'm kind of tired of Freud and Jung in ballet." Adds Director Lew Christensen of the San Francisco Ballet: "It's a good story, and the audience is not belabored with reading pro gram notes to find out what's going on." As the ballet opens, a spinning sun swirling over a landscape like a moon crater gives way to a lush Garden of Eden where two angels. Raphael and Lucifer, poke...
...setting, by Donald Oenslager, also leaves something to be desired. It is easy to see where Freud found the psychosexual basis for his theories; a volume in his bookcase startlingly resembles my copy of Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. And the shelves also reveal that Freud was a compulsive stealer of library books...
...Country is a good play, and could be better. Despite its simplification, however, it may still be over the heads of the New York tourist trade. The reaction of people sitting around me was typically, "My God! What is he doing?" and I had the impression that Freud was as much on trial last night at the Wilbur as he ever was in his own time...