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...Freud & Mr. Allison...
Your review of this truly fine motion picture is not only repulsive; it's insulting-not to Roman Catholics, but to all human beings. Contrary to your movie critic's beliefs and those of the late Dr. Freud, the universe does not revolve around...
Fear Strikes Out (Paramount) rolls Frank Merriwell and Sigmund Freud into a ball and then lines it out for a solid hit. The film is based on the widely read autobiography of Jim Piersall. the fleet-footed outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, who suffered an emotional collapse five years ago which almost ended his career before it began. Unlikely as it may look from the bleachers, Piersall suffered from what has been called the Laius complex.* Piersall's father (Karl Malden), according to the script, was a wild ball hawk whose wings were clipped by family responsibilities...
Subtle, intriguing and full of originality, the play recalls other writers who, steering by Freud with a list to Oedipus, showed man haunted by the ghost of his mother, and combined the pursuit of love with a longing for death. But Aiken is first and foremost a poet with an intricate set of symbols all his own. He has long been fascinated by ships, voyages, wandering and exile. No other major U.S. writer is more traditionally American than he-and yet no other gives a stronger feeling of being an explorer beyond his own land. In Ushant (TIME...
Regarding the Dec. 24 article, "A Soul Without Psychology": Dr. Ira Progoff is making the same mistake as Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have made. He is looking for an absolute truth, through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment-even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics...