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...curiosities, Cathleen Schine, takes an unexpected, wrong turn to the Galapagos Islands with The Evolution of Jane. The existential questioning of the protagonist, Jane Barlow Schwartz, is based on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. With the additional layering and listing of the names of famous thinkers such as Freud, Marx and Nietzsche, Schine sets out to prove, as she stated in an interview, that she "is a pseudo-intellectual. And [she's] really good...
...title of her story collection is borrowed from a late novel by Mary McCarthy, who lifted the name from Audubon's celebrated book of avian engravings. But Moore might as well have used Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Freud's classic essay on humor. The bemused and angry women in Birds defiantly quip their way through trouble. "When I'm sleeping with someone, I'm less obsessed with the mail," says a lonely ex-film star. A reluctant wife explains her conjugal state with the comment, "I married my husband because I thought it would be a great...
...Obviously Freud is racist, sexist," she said. "He is very much a product of his time. On a deeper level...[his work] was very liberating...
Nicholson concluded by emphasizing that Freud's theories are still very relevant in psychology today...
...have much to benefit from the work of Dr. Freud," she said...