Word: freudianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH THIS SAME sardonic mischievousness werealize in retrospect Borowczyk has done a whole number on "artsy" filmotography that will probably keep duped "cinema" students taking copious notes. Freudian symbolism gushes from every object close-up: the postcard nudes looking like overripe cherubs, the town philosopher walking his black Great Dane, the chamber pots that our protagonists keep filling with pure water. One bit of this spoof is priceless: after some gorgeous but solemn footage of a French museum, Borowczyk has one of his characters distractedly walk right into the lap of a painted reclining nude...
...date is 1962, a year before the action of Couples occurred. The author has always been preoccupied by the uses of infidelity. Fifteen years ago, he would have us believe, Freudian tolerance and the Pill had not yet quite eroded the dangers and moral impediments involved in extramarital love. In any case Jerry, actively religious, thirtyish and ten years into a good marriage, is not one to take love lightly, in or out of wedlock. He wants to divorce Ruth and make an honest woman of Sally. He agonizes over his children. He revels in sweet pain and postures about...
...dreams from their subconscious during the night and makes them materialize, not in flesh and blood but in "neutrinos," an indestructible substance that renders the apparitions immortal. Hence the "guests"--they are dreams brought to life. No wonder the ocean looks grey and creviced, like a brain. A simple Freudian parable. Maybe...
...great American patriarch will never have it so good again. Clarence Day Sr., the gruff protagonist of Lindsay and Crouse's Life With Father, bullies his wife and children with nothing but a blustering charm--this was one classic stage family that managed to escape sinister Freudian entanglements, tragic alcoholic breakdowns, the crippling gaps between aspiration and achievement and other dark intertwinings of soul and psyche. Life With Father...
...first half of the play, Leontes unjustly accuses his queen, Hermione, of adultery with his boyhood friend, King Polixenes. He denounces them both, brushes aside the oracle of Apollo, loses his wife and both children, realizes his folly and vows repentance. A number of Freudian commentators have diagnosed Leontes, in the words of W.H. Auden, as "a classical case of paranoid sexual jealousy due to repressed homosexual feelings." The diagnosis is accurate, but the causation I find unconvincing. In the context of the entire play it seems a distortion to claim that Leontes is projecting his own childhood guilt...