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Nailed on his 16th driving rap after he pranged a bystander's auto, quirkish Artist Lucian Michael Freud, grandson of Sigmund, was fined $14 by a London court. Said the magistrate, frisking the long record of Freudian slips: "You are temperamentally unfitted to drive a car. I think you'd better see a psychiatrist...
...earlier approaches, Dr. May took the well-worn Oedipus situation and recapped it. To Freud, Oedipus meant that a child has a sexual attraction to the parent of the opposite sex; as a result, the child experiences guilt, fear of the other parent, and (in boys) castration anxiety. In Freudian and descendent schools in the U.S., the patient is helped to accept the idea that such transitory feelings are normal and natural, so he is relieved of his guilt and anxiety...
...town of Port Johnson. Alfred's brother is the apple of Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact with people rather than make friends. His outwardly charming, cold-fish personality seems to carry...
Whatever their factional differences, the Jungians (many M.D. psychiatrists, but with a liberal sprinkling of intensively trained lay analysts) were united in their opposition to many major trends in the modern world of materialism, scientism, technology. Said New York's Heinz Westman: "The Freudian approach to analysis is mechanistic. Jungians not only believe in but have proof of the creative faculties of the soul, which can cure its own ills...
...forgive a satire magazine for failing to be funny, or original, or mature. Or even forgive the Freudian make-up and the New Haven mailing address. But the greatest sin which satire can commit is being dull. And Monocle is better than sex for insomnia...