Word: freudian
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...Freudian theorists would have the best, and the most meaningful, nightmares about my grandfather's encroachment of their territory. These critics spend their entire careers picking apart literature to find hidden symbols of sexual repression. The snake in the Garden of Eden? A phallic symbol. Moby Dick? A phallic symbol. The Washington Monument? A phallic symbol...
Barker has no problem accepting women (which he calls either "girls" or "ladies," depending on the reference) as intelligent and capable. But for someone who looks so disdainfully on the Freudian philosophy, Barker just can't seem to grasp the fact that the world does not revolve around his penis. While his academic work is on the cutting edge of his field, his brain--and his body--are still operating in a 1950s mode...
...narrator is considerate enough, through all the action, to outline the psychological interpretations, the implications of the course of events on his psyche, in case the readers are not well enough versed in Freudian theory...
PEER GYNT. Hartford Stage Company captures both the epic sweep and the proto- Freudian core of Ibsen's poem of self-discovery in a sequential pair of full-length productions...
PEER GYNT. Hartford Stage Company captures both the epic sweep and the proto- Freudian core of Ibsen's poem of self-discovery in a sequential pair of full-length productions...