Word: freudianism
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...sexual invert and made the stage vibrate to the heartbeats of the violated and the vulnerable. Himself a masterly creator of characters, Williams could not confer that gift on his disciples. An entire secondary echelon of playwrights-men like William Inge, Robert Anderson and Paddy Chayefsky-became Freudian scholastics. They invented the look-through character long before the appearance of the see-through dress. But to explain a character is to explain him away, and through the general permeation of Freudian concepts, an audience can do that almost faster than the playwright...
...testimony of statistics, an automobile is clearly an instrument of destruction, if not outright murder (worldwide, automobiles kill 200,000 persons a year). By Freudian analysis, it is the supreme expression of aggression in an increasingly depersonalized society. Under these circumstances, driving a car should be an urgent matter of concern for Christian moralists, contends France's Abbe Hubert Renard, and in a 306-page book entitled The Automobilist and Christian Morality, he attempts to fashion a schema of ethical principles for the Christian driver...
Herbert W. Richardson, assistant professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School, will speak on "Post-Freudian Theology" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House...
...Freudian Art. Considerably less well known than pop art's debt to Dada is the seminal influence exercised by the surrealists on U.S. abstract expressionism. The relationship has been obscured until now, partly by the abstract expressionists themselves, who kept their early surrealistic canvases out of sight. The confusion was compounded by the fact that the original surrealist manifesto of 1924 envisioned two different techniques for applying Freud's then radical theories...
Agent of Domination. In the U.S., Marcuse's most recent book, One-Dimensional Man (1964) is one of Beacon Press's bestselling paperbacks and a growing campus favorite-even though it is on few required reading lists. Almost as popular is his earlier, Freudian interpretation of social change, Eros and Civilization, which intrigues students seeking an intellectual basis for today's hippie culture. Taking advantage of the rising interest in Marcuse, Beacon Press next month is publishing a collection of early essays called Negations...