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...than a man-sized task. Dr. Helene Deutsch, psychiatrist at the Massachusetts General Hospital, has been at it for 30 years, part of that time as a student with the late, great Sigmund Freud. Her conclusions are summed up in Psychology of Woman (Grune & Stratton; $4.50), a scholarly, technical, Freudian analysis, intended for professional medicos, but of great general interest. Sample findings...
...small Southern town (called Maxwell, Ga.), in which the dramatic action is the love affair of a white man and a Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have occurred. It is a somewhat inhibiting theme, costly in that it imprisons literary imaginations that might otherwise...
...cruel caricature of her old-maidishness. She dreams (in white and gold) of climbing a gigantic wedding cake while vast choirs shout her praises. She dreams (in candy colors) of a circus which turns into a trial, with a gibbering jury of freaks and clowns. In spite of some Freudian symbols which may make a few cinemaddicts jump, these dream sequences are not very dreamlike. But as production numbers they will make many a cinemaddict's eyes...
...Freudian Bird...
Oberndorf's interpretations of Holmes's words sometimes seem farfetched. But in the light of Freudian psychiatry many of Holmes's aphorisms assume striking new meanings: e.g., "The woman a man loves is always his own daughter." The autocrat of the breakfast table, says Oberndorf, well understood the Oedipus and other complexes...