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This unfortunate portrayal is the result of Actor Tracy's and Director Victor Fleming's (G.W.T.W.) refusal to play the hoary fable for its horror. They have dressed it up with overtones of Freud in which Tracy's transformation to Hyde is accompanied by symbolic montage shots of a bounding lion (the beast in Hyde); lilies (the purity of luscious Lana Turner, Jekyll's upper-crust fiancee) ; an hourglass (Jekyll's frustration). The result of this phantasmagoria is boredom...
...greatest neuropathologists of Europe was last week denied a license to practice medicine in New York. In 1938 Dr. Otto Marburg and his wife left Vienna on the same train with their late great friend Sigmund Freud. They went to the U.S., Freud to Britain. In New York City, 66-year-old Dr. Marburg was given a Rockefeller research grant, a professor's title at Columbia, a laboratory in vast Montefiore Hospital...
...Sigmund Freud himself could not have contrived a ghastlier childhood for a poet. Rilke was born in Prague in 1875. Thanks to his mother he spent his first five years as a girl. Thanks to his father he spent five more years (aged 10 to 15) in the hell of a military school. He came out of it a hypersensitive androgyne, who wrote facile poetry and worse prose, traveled in Italy and Russia, gradually crystallized the beginnings of a serious art in which virginity, roses and death held almost obsessive symbolic values...
...personality of the Japanese. At home he is "serene and tender," is so hypersensitive he requires vases of flowers in his subway trains; in uniform he is "as ruthless as the Prussian sergeant" and is capable of such atrocities as the Rape of Nanking. In explaining him Hauser eschews Freud for Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have regarded it somewhat as a "charity bazaar." Says Hauser...
...Like Freud, he helped destroy the 18th-and 19th-Century illusion that man is a rational creature. Like William Graham Sumner (Folkways), he disturbed civilization by disclosing the relativity of morals...