Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND: Cybill Shepherd Freudian-slipping in plugs for Director Roommate Peter Bogdanovich's films as she coyly read "Paper Moon" for The Paper Chase, "The Last Picture Show" for The Last Detail, while reciting the nominees for the best supporting actor...
...experience. Like James he regretted that letters lived on as a record of his private life, and tried to have them destroyed. But whereas Edel gives details on James only as they relate to the life of the mind--he analyzes James's doodles and word-games, and his "Freudian" slips in mis-writing dates on letters--Blotner presents all of the minute details as pedantic facts. Even the events that cry out for psychological interpretation--Faulkner's wife's suicide attempt on their honeymoon, his younger brother's death in an airplane stunt, his debilitating drinking--are spit...
...more powerful. The spectator first sees an eye in the scrim curtain. Like the opening in a Faberge Easter egg, it reveals colts romping in a field of daisies, hunters on the chase, a shadow man and woman walking hand in hand through a forest-all fine, unselfconscious, pre-Freudian images for the awakening love of Dido and Aeneas. The cinematic montage is both opulent and sensual...
...Nikolai, a suitor of one of the sisters, says "How well I understand this craving for work. I've never done a stroke of work in my life." In Olivier's production the line is tragicomic. In the City Center production it is a little joke--some sort of Freudian slip--that only a foolish and insensitive man would make. Natasha, the wife of the sisters' brother, steals a lot of laughs in the City Center version by being so unremittingly vain and petty, but she's stealing from the sensitivity of the play...
...describes him as a Chekhovian figure, but in truth he is a little vague to the reader, and perhaps to her. She doesn't even know whether he is Freudian, Jungian or Adlerian. He is the name of what she clings to. Sarah understands her problem with merciless clarity: she yearns. "Yearn," she writes. "That is a word of such strength it makes me afraid." The specialty of the mediocre neurotic writer is to frighten a reader with his act. Sarah Ferguson does something far more subtle, far more relentless. She makes a reader enter not so much into...