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...hard to see how even the most hairy-handed technique could tarnish a play about Sigmund Freud's first case. There is a certain morbid fascination about a pretty young lady in the throes of psychosomatic illness that would enlist most people's interest even if it were done by marionettes in High German...
Thus Henry Denker, the author of The Far Country, had a head start when he embarked on his dramatization of Freud's treatment of Elizabeth von Ritter. Whether he increased his lead very much is open to question. There is much to be praised in The Far Country, but there are also some embarrassing weak spots...
...than "She shouldn't, but will she?" Now everyone assumes that she will, but should she? The question is of grave concern to young women, their parents, psychiatrists and friends, but it is not a very good theme for an entire novel. A snickering approach inevitably blasphemes against Freud, and a serious treatment defames Boccaccio. In this somewhat disappointing book, Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis, most famous of the new British school of "red brick" writers,* takes a seriocomic line, thus offending both heroes...
Bentley attacked the modern sanctimonious attitude toward marriage ("the family that prays together, stays together") which attributes the cause of America's "moral crisis" to jokes about adultery. Agreeing with Freud, he said that such jokes offer a safety valve to the "normal desire to destroy the family relationship, to desecrate the hearth...
Farce cannot function without this aggressiveness. Bentley stated. He agreed with Freud that innocent jokes do not make us laugh. "We want satire, obscenity, and attack." Thus farce is the only dramatic form in which an actor can lap his mother-in-law with humorous effects...