Word: freudianism
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...critics bought this Freudian analysis. But most agreed that Grandson Wieland had achieved as fine, and as gripping, a performance of Tristan as the modern opera stage has offered-although not a single fraulein collapsed in the aisles...
...More decisive were written essays and proof of intellectual curiosity. Instead of summer loafing, next fall's incoming freshmen were busy last week perusing a list of prescribed books, from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way to Western Civilization and Calvin Hall's A Primer of Freudian Psychology to William Golding's Lord of the Flies...
...room, a painting, a city. Plot is a diversion. People are so used to wondering who gets the girl that they do not see the girl as girl at all. Themes and symbols are also suspect. Even the intricacies of the human consciousness as explored and exploited by the Freudian novel have gone stale as readers have become sophisticated...
...Carroll Handbook, by Roger Lancelyn Green, lists no fewer than 561 memorabilia on or by the enigmatic Oxford don. The Alice adventures and The Hunting of the Snark have given the language a host of full-blooded words such as chortle, galumphing and burble. Learned Carrollian treatises include farfetched Freudian analyses, one of which purports to show that Dodgson suffered from a "reversal of unresolved Oedipal attachment." In the untidy, inventive White Knight, who of all Carroll's characters is the only one who shows affection for Alice, scholars see a self-caricature. Some commentators think that the battle...
George Burns' On the First Day of Christmas is a Gothic shocker in modern dress, complete with Freudian visions and dexadrine. Suicide and castration are legitimate, if sensational, topics, but in this case their function is more emetic than literary...