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...considered diagnosis of Chicago's Dr. Robert N. McMurry, disputes between labor and management are not so much social or political problems as psychological conflicts. Psychologist McMurry, a Freud disciple with a Vienna Ph.D., gets $125 an hour for giving advice on labor relations to companies manufacturing everything from automobiles to candy bars. Last week, after ten years' work with 180,000 employees of 127 companies, he summed up his findings: "Management has failed to be the kindly protective father, so the union has become the caressing mother who gets things from that stinker of a father...
...illusions seem to have been shed both subtly and cataclysmically. Ideas such as those of Freud which had been around before the turn of the century invaded thinking they had never been intended for. Loss of faith in reason spread to the painters and poets and eventually evolved into such aberrations as Dadaism and Surrealism. However, these were the sensitive areas, and the folks in Sauk Center, Minnesota had not yet been moved by it at all. Joyce had to build upon an ancient myth to get any order into his world, but most of the more modern myths still...
...nominate a man . . . who would never win a popular election, but who, I am confident, has exerted more influence than any other man of our time-Sigmund Freud...
...melodrama flashed so many tricks of the trade-pianos, radios, telephones, striking clocks, blinking lights, swinging doors, even false statements in the program. Yet The Closing Door is much more seriously written than the usual thriller and is full of clinical detail and therapeutic advice, some of it Freud and some of it scrambled. If this adds to the weight of the play, it only proves, in terms of good melodrama, a dead weight. Toward the end, however, as the adolescent events that poisoned Vail's life emerge simultaneously with the frightful method he took to find release...
...preliminary talk before giving his first demonstration, Dr. Moreno said he was "like Freud an innovator. . . an inventor of gadgets--social gadgets...Psychoanalyst's couch, which is a mess, as you know. The patient couldn't get out and fight! Couldn't make love to anybody! He was tied down. The whole orientation of psychoanalysis has developed out of the patient's recumbent position." Dr. Moreno punctuated his remarks with colorful gestures, and his gusto of delivery could qualify him for another role--that of basso buffo...