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...Murray Schisgal's satire of psychic snobs and pseudo-Freudian fools is sharp ened by the inventive direction of Mike Nichols...
...most of the early reformers were growing up, the American family as an instrument of repression was almost extinct, leaving the young intellectuals with no firm social structure to rebel against. Perhaps for this reason, perhaps because Jane Addams was not the daughter of an overbearing Breueresque daddy, the Freudian discovery of the inner self did not breed a characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost state of bliss, a pre-adolescent Eden that had never felt the dead hand of patriarchal restraint. What developed instead of a sense...
Pussycat, in true Freudian tradition, has been aimed at the subconscious, and the audience often finds itself laughing in spite of itself. Events move so quickly that control becomes impossible. Halfway through you will either be so thoroughly reconditioned that anything, 'no matter how perverted, will seem funny, or you will find the film a horrid bore. But the very fact that new kinds of responses are required to fully enjoy Pussycat, ranging from vicarious indulgence to an informed recognition of the parodies, indicates that Pussycat is a new breed of film...
...techniques of talk-it-out psychotherapy have changed slowly but significantly since Sigmund Freud first stretched patients out on a couch. The Freudian "50-Minute Hour," originally restricted to patient and analyst, has led to two-hour sessions of group therapy in which half a dozen or so patients, all with similar symptoms, get together with the same therapist. Now Los Angeles' Dr. George R. Bach, 51, a Latvian-born Ph.D. psychologist, has pushed the trend -both in time and numbers-about as far as it can reasonably go. He has enlarged the cast to a dozen or more...
...frolics through the mazes and labyrinths of three pseudo-Freudian psyches -all suffering from nothing more than acute self-attention. Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach are brilliant...