Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Could there be something Freudian about a painter who invites his mother to sit for a portrait not once but more than 1,000 times? Definitely, since the man is Lucian Freud, grandson of the founder of psychoanalysis. An exhibition of Lucian's works, including five oils of his mother Lucie, 82, will open in New York City's Davis & Long gallery on April 4. "My work is purely autobiographical. I work from people that interest me," explains Lucian, 55. The exhibit psyched up a London Sunday Times critic. "You can call it odd or art," he wrote...
Spiegel knows that his theory will not be easily accepted. "I couldn't believe it at first myself," says the psychiatrist, who was trained as a neo-Freudian. "Now I've made a 180° turnaround. Today I believe that the major determination of who we are as people is pretty much decided when the sperm meets...
...withers; Balthus' peculiar position is in part the result of his steady refusal to be a man of his own time. Admittedly, his silent paintings, populated by cats and malignant-looking, narcissistic girls, offer their distant homages to surrealism. Balthus' work is, to put it mildly, post-Freudian. But the innovations of the past 40 years' art-the movements, polemics and epileptic spasms that form the twilight of the avant-garde-have not touched it at all. Against all odds, Balthus paints as though the tradition that runs from Donatello to Courbet had never broken. For that...
Thankfully, the movie improves appreciably from here on in. The relationship passes through its utopian phase, and after discovering some Freudian flaws deep in Caroline's psyche, the cynical viewer gets the sadistic pleasure of watching a helplessly idealistic relationship march inexorably to its demise. At this point, those in the audience who have never been through this painful process will weep, and those who have will smile smugly, nod their heads and derive a pleasant satisfaction from knowing that they were not the only ones...
Feminists and most non-Freudian therapists disagree. They believe women are more susceptible to agoraphobia because they are taught as girls that the outside world is dangerous and then grow up to be stay-at-home housewives who can afford to nurse their fears of the unknown. Give women confidence and jobs outside the home, they say, and female agoraphobia will drop to the male level...