Word: freudianized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried to grasp the causes of his failure. This massive, prolix biography by Author Stallman, a literature professor at the University of Connecticut, comes as a refreshing if formidable change. Professor Stallman refuses to truckle to the notion that all things in heaven and earth are simply dreams in Freudian psychology and rejects the theories of earlier biographers that Crane was a young man driven by fear. His scholarly, if often tedious, volume simply gathers every available scrap of information about Crane and his writing, and assembles it in chronological order. The result unquestionably is the most exhaustive biography ever...
Promises, Promises. That particular revelation came during one of the "depth interviews" conducted in the name of motivational research, the way-out wing of advertising in which the Freudian sell is rudimentary. As all admen know, people don't buy products, they buy psychological satisfaction: the promise of beauty, not cosmetics; oral gratification, not cigarettes. Depthwise, baking a cake is supposedly a re- enactment of childbirth and shaving a form of castration. Speed and performance, or a sense of male power, are blatantly stressed in automobile commercials. Cars become wild animals or fish Wildcat, Impala, Cougar, Stingray, Barracuda. When...
...bodies. Sometimes the audience wishes it could forget too, in view of the age and bulk of most singers who are up to the demands of the vocal score. Not even the composer's innovation-minded grandson, Wieland Wagner, could change this. His productions introduced heavy hints of Freudian psychology, but the lovers' bond remained shrouded in symbolism. It all seemed to bear out Wagner's advice to Nietzsche that to get the most out of the opera, he should take off his glasses and listen to the orchestra...
Joan Miro, born in Spain in 1893, is one of the most well-known of the Surrealist painters of the '20's and '30's, a group fascinated, along with Andre Breton, in the potentialities of the Freudian dream state. At one end of the Surrealist school was the photographic realist Salvador Dali, and at the other was Miro, who employed for a while an automatistic method--that is, he began to paint without conscious thought and then continued consciously after studying what he had done...
...Freudian Mud. In a special way, it was Nureyev's season. He performed at least three nights a week-most often in tandem with Margot Fonteyn, still a ballerina of faultless style at the age of 49. Nureyev also had a hand in the choreography of three productions that the Royal brought with it. The best were derivative-works restaged from the repertory of his former company, Russia's Kirov Ballet. By far the worst was his muddied Freudian version of The Nutcracker, in which Drosselmeyer, with a Humbert-Humbert lurch, is transformed into the prince who pays...