Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borowitz brilliantly parodies Freudian psychology in the scene in which Sedgwick tries to brainwash Superman. Sedgwick accuses Superman of being "rejected as a child" and of craving "the adulation of millions." "Who told you we needed a Superman?" he barks at the cowed and cringing extra-terrestrial. He convinces Superman that normal people drive cars, rather than...
Superman pulls out of his funk at the end of the show of course; his overwhelming desire to do good triumphs in the face of Freudian psychoanalysis. During a song called "Pow! Bam! Zonk!" Superman trounces his foes, returns as Metropolis's hero, and wins the love of Lois Lane--who has been drooling after him throughout the entire show...
...splits like his name, into two equal parts. The film is set in Berlin. Based on a 1936 novel written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov, it is hopeless in mood, but most cheerfully so. Nabokov once pointed out in print that the novel is devoid of message, ideas or Freudian "Wiener schnitzel dreams." The despair of the title therefore may only have been that of the penniless young ex patriate author who supported himself by giving tennis lessons and no doubt feared that he would have to go on saying "Smotrina myachik" (Keep your eye on the ball...
According to Howard, the team "could feel it in our bones that we were going to beat Princeton." Coach Field told the squad she had two dreams about a Harvard win (ah, nothing like a little bit of good old Freudian psychology), while a 5-0 win earlier in the week over Brown (another first!) served to add adrenalin to the Crimson ranks...
...perhaps the most unexpected event came when Harvard coach Joe Restic, the silver-haired, silver-tongued gridiron executive who at times makes you believe he'd be better off in the White House instead of Dillon Field House, analyzed the contest with a Freudian-Rocknean slip...