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Having incorporated the basic tenets of Freudian theory as it existed in 1923 into his private mystical world view, Groddeck provided a springboard from which Freud was later able to add the important model of dynamic conflict among the Id, Ego, and Superego to his previous topographical (unconscious-preconscious-conscious) model...
...find it exceedingly difficult to characterize Vigo's method of treating dreams and reality. It does not resemble Bergman's use of symbolism, Freudian or otherwise, and it is nothing like the way Jean Genet handles many layers of illusion. Rather, Vigo deliberately distorts his story, visually and dramatically. He injects the outre in the form of a headmaster who is three feet tall and a drawing that comes to life, and he slants his scenario so that the children win. Still, he never departs far enough from normal experience to enter the surreal, and this is precisely what makes...
Through it all we hear the refrain of the semi-religious, semi-philosophical, semi-Freudian collegiate discussion. Early in the play Brown asks Dion to room with him at college, and he might just as well have added "so we can philosophize together in private, instead of detaining this audience...
...reservoir in Kansas. She says, "Don't;" he doesn't. Instead, he drives her home to Mother who tells her that nice girls "don't go too far." His father tells him to "be careful." At this point, Inge inserts a series of plot complications that illustrate all the Freudian home truths. Eventually, she goes out of her mind, and he goes to Yale, where he marries an Italian waitress. Many morals could be drawn from this oh-so-revealing analysis of sexual mores, but let's not bother...
...other. Now according to Freud, the repression of sex can cause all sorts of unpleasant symptoms. So the hero promptly comes down with pneumonia, while the heroine gets the screaming meemies and tries to drown herself. In the end, though, her balance is restored by a nice friendly old Freudian psychiatrist...