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Dark-eyed sex kitten Valerie Kaprisky plays the teenage vamp out for the blood of musclebound gigelo-pimp Romain (played by French hearthrob Bernard Giraudeau). The premise, not a plot but a torturously enacted idea for one, is a humourous example of self-conscious Freudiana: at the beginning of the film, Chris saves an eight-year-old boy from the deadly clutches of a field of jellyfish--read vagina--and in the end pushes superstud Giraudeau into the deadly metaphor...

Author: By Tom Reiss, | Title: L'Annee de Meduses | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

...dissolving the department. Still in Toronto, however, Masson became involved in psychoanalysis, and in a relatively short time managed to climb to some of the highest peaks of the profession. He became close friends with Kurt Eissler, the director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, a vast repository of Freudiana and the bastion of Freudian orthodoxy...

Author: By Victoria G. T. bassetti, | Title: A Searching Rebel | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

...most illuminating of the hundreds of papers given (see below) were firmly rooted in psychoanalytic theory. Moreover, this was the centenary of Freud's birth, and thousands drawn from the conventioner's and the public milled in iconolatrous rapture around a devoutly assembled collection of Freudiana-busts, portraits, manuscripts, letters. Some 2,500 made a symbolic return to the womb when they crowded into the Morrison Hotel's sub terranean Terrace Casino to hear the high priest of the pure Freudian cult, Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, 77, eulogize the master. They gave Jones a standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatry Changes Course | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...nucleus of a select library on psychoanalysis. Analyst Abraham Arden Brill, who translated Freud into faithfully wooden English, has already donated funds for the library, as well as a fine collection of 20 volumes on the history of sex practices. Several other psychiatrists have promised to will their valuable Freudiana to the library. Says Dr. Shatzky, with Freud in his eye, "I can't wait that long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brands from the Burning | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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