Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dr. Ralph Waldo Gerard, 73, a University of California neurophysiologist who challenged in the 1950s the Freudian theory that schizophrenia results from adverse cultural and psychological conditions and posited that faulty body chemistry was the probable cause; following heart surgery; in Newport Beach, Calif...
...HASTY PUDDING Show is the kind of thing that lives on its precedents, since no post-Freudian group of undergraduates could begin a routine of dressing up in drag to amuse people. But once the practice can be justified by the past, the show can float merrily along without being subject to serious questions. Still, it is a little odd, or at least surprising, if you divorce yourself from the Harvard context of what-a-funny-example-of-tradition-here...
...watch. Isadora, Bennet her husband, and Adrian Goodlove, a Laingian from England, get involved in an adulterous whirlwing in Vienna. Bennet--Freudian, careful, compulsively clean, straight, steadfast--represents Isadora's panic about being alone and about change. Adrian--Laingian, irresponsible, egotistical, clown, ass grabber--represents her hunger for the heady and exuberant in life. Isadora tries to choose between them, juggling security with Bennet against escape with Adrian, The National Book Award and the Transatlantic Ass Award. She sleeps with Bennet dreaming of Adrian and sleeps with Adrian needing Bennet. She doesn't want what she has, and when...
Theophilus, however, has a sense of humor. He is the first to admit that his only weapons are charm, some mild Freudian therapy, a gift for mendacity and the kind of benign chicanery that in old-fashioned stories used to help gentle, truthful and kindly people at the expense of the rapacious, the pretentious and the proud. Indeed, most of the crises North confronts are genteel and domestic: incipient misalliances (to be blocked), henpecked husbands (to be liberated) and the ill effects of ghastly rumors (to be laid to rest...
...that both offends and fascinates-which is to say it excites the voyeuristic instinct. There were his Faustian bouts with alcohol as some kind of sorcerer's abused magic potion. There were his Baudelairean rumblings at the back door to salvation. There was also some basic tight-vested Freudian neurosis and a not quite redeeming sense of irony...