Word: freudianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HAYDEN, playing at radical politics in California, disturbs Salisbury. Robert Bly explains his Freudian theory of the Vietnam War, and this intrigues Salisbury. A convention of elderly black worshippers in their finest clothes cheers him--they are "almost the only persons I met in the whole of the United States that I could truly call ladies and gentlemen." All of these people, in some way, seem to elude...
...upon his entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Here, finally, was the redeemer of English Literature and--through some kind of magical transformation--of the humanities. Here was the man who could bring together all of the specialists entrenched in the battlelines of literary criticism--the New Critics, the Freudian, the historical-approachers, the biographical-literati, the "high culture" mongerers, and the platitudinists of Christian and Marxist interpretations of literature. Here was the critic who had begun to negotiate the peace in the '50s, with the Anatomy of Criticism, which outlined the science of literary criticism as a value-free...
Black Moon has the clinical, slightly oppressive tone of dream data being recorded and examined. Freudian symbolism proliferates. The war between the sexes suggests the girl's adolescent turmoil over her own sexual identity. One notes-one can hardly avoid-the preponderance of traditional Freudian sexual metaphors: snakes, clocks, the horn of the unicorn. Add to this the curdled maternalism of the old invalid and the nearly unreachable sustenance of that outsize glass of milk, and Black Moon seems like a long case study...
...transcendent purity every bit as excessive and unattainable as the perfect body cleanliness of the deodorant-happy culture he abhors. His views on the psychological roots of dirty jokes, while delivered with ingenuity, verve and color (Legman will always call a spade a goddam shovel), belong to the Freudian orthodoxy as laid down by the master in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious...
Trying to be more Freudian than Sigmund, Legman plays many varia tions on his single theme: smut springs from unconscious fears and rages and is usually directed by males against females. His illustrations on the war be tween the sexes range from the earliest skirmishes to a cocktail-party confrontation: a beautiful woman propositions a man. "My place or yours?" he asks...