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...years, had marked some lines down 30%. Surprisingly enough, it was the best toys that often carried the biggest markdowns, e.g., Marx's sturdy, battery-powered go-kart, list-priced at $30 sells for as low as $15. Says the Toy Guidance Council's Melvin Freud: "The retail discounting has stretched the toy dollar 25%. Toys are the biggest bargain in the stores this Christmas...
...skillful, and how well George Roy Hill has directed and Barbara Baxley, James Daly and Robert Webber have acted it, a good deal seems somehow unsatisfying. There is, in the end, too much sense of mere surface, of flare-ups with more theater in them than truth, of Freud pinch-hitting for flesh and blood, of amusing little leitmotivs in place of incisive motivations. There is not much organic development, and at times scenes dribble on or go flat. Again, there is even here too much sex, or needless talk about it, at times on the commercial rather than compulsive...
...Civil War. Freud had that arrogant, Joycean self-confidence that seems to mark many men of destiny before they make their mark. Before a glimmering of psychoanalysis had entered his mind, he told Martha that he was destroying his papers to make things difficult for his biographers: ''Each one of them will be right in his opinion of 'The Development of the Hero,' and I am already looking forward to seeing them go astray...
Martha was the first to go astray, if she thought Freud was going to cash the full 100,000 kisses. Work came first, she became "beloved old dear," and as his family grew, Freud tooled off on solitary holidays to Italy. He was better at fathering (six children) than at being a father. At 17, Daughter Sophie sprang her surprise engagement on him, and Freud only inquired with middle-class prudence about the young man's financial condition. When this same daughter died of pneumonia eight years later, he bore the tragedy with a typically stoic detachment he himself...
...therefore, not surprising that the Oedipus complex explains Freud better than it does Oedipus. Psychoanalysis is a kind of battle map of the psyche in which Id, Superego and Ego are engaged in an endless civil war. That war was Sigmund Freud. He himself said, "I stand for an infinitely freer sexual life, although I myself have made very little use of such freedom." He wanted to be a lawgiver, but he became a mythmaker. He wanted to be a scientist, but he was more nearly an artist-a type that he described as "a being of a special kind...