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Shocked and shattered by the Moors testimony, Lady Snow lays the motivation of the murders not to the dark cur rents of standard Freudian psychopathology but rather to Brady's library. "There are some books that are not fit for all people," she says, "and some people who are not fit for all books." Literature, she believes, is a model demanding emulation; if the model is violence, violence follows. "Their interests," she says of Brady and Hindley, "were sadomasochistic, titillatory and sado-Fascist, and in the bookshops they found practically all the pabulum they needed...
Like his Landsmann, Freud (whom he never met), Dr. Redlich began his professional career as a neurologist, then switched to the social and analytic sides of psychiatry. He says that his approach is "basically Freudian," but of his Yale department he insists: "We are undogmatic, uncommitted to any particular point of view or school of thought. We are at the threshold of a broad new psychiatry that will use the knowledge of many disciplines...
Vallee's brilliant bumbling, on the other hand, is even better on the wide screen, as when he Freudian slips, "I like the way you thinch, Fink" and intones the college musical lampoon, Grand Old Ivy. For the first time, Hollywood seems to have cracked the Morse code: after appearing in a succession of turkeys-most recently Oh Dad, Poor Dad (TIME, March 3)-Bobby is finally allowed to steal a picture the way he stole the show. He burbles with the irresistible energy of a degenerate Peter Pan as he chants to a mirror, I Believe...
Bearing out that notion, the book deals directly with a man who is made to "relive the whole of history in a single night's sleep." He is a pubkeeper named Porter, but his Freudian alias in the dream is Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Why Earwicker? Well, Porter's night life is invaded by an incestuous passion for his daughter Isobel (Iseult-Isolde). The inadmissible word "incest" sneaks by as "insect," specifically "earwig." Thus the odd name, says Burgess, is "dreamily appropriate...
...story-teller Lewis Carroll was a pioneer in mathematics and photography. Meyer Schapiro, the 1967 Charles Eliot Norton lecturer, combines this same curiosity and inventiveness with a profound, human sensitivity. While he is an art historian by profession he is conversant with subjects as diverse as semiotics and Freudian psychology...