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Fortunately for Spellbound, Bergman smuggles her pathological hero upstate to her teacher and friend-cantankerous old Dr. Michael Chekhov (actor-director nephew of the late, great Anton) who resembles a kindly Sigmund Freud and so expertly milks his lines for humor that he steals scene after scene from Bergman's tense seriousness and Peck's dazed somnambulism...
...that is in complete accord with this writer's opinion of the magazine as a whole. In this light, your article under Medicine titled "The True Freudians" [TIME, Sept. 10], was very disappointing. Even if TIME'S writer is one of many violent dissenters I think that Freud and men of the Freud school have earned respectability at least, in the past few decades. . . . It seemed to me that the article was deliberately trying to picture analysts who are "Confoozin' but Amoozin...
Sirs: I am surprised and depressed that a book reviewer in TIME should be so old-fashioned as to write derisively of Freud...
TIME itself, early in the '403, printed a penetrating and erudite review of Freud's last book (or an edition of his combined works), and referred farsightedly to future designations of our age as the Age of Freud-the first time, so far as I know, that this prophecy has been made in print, though it has since come into common usage...
Nearly every psychologist is forced to modify Freud's theories of sexual determinism. . . . Your Medicine editor exposes nothing but his own folly when he equates Jung and Adler with Freud as the "Big Three" of psychoanalysis, and writes of the Freudian "monotheism" as though it were a slightly faded joke...