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Died. Dr. Ernest Jones, 79, English disciple, friend, collaborator and biographer of Sigmund Freud; in London. Credited with awakening the English-speaking world to Freudian theories, Jones practiced psychoanalysis for 52 years, wrote the three-volume authoritative The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953; Sept...
...absence is eminently suited for presentation on the 20th Century stage, especially if the play is one of the classics of world literature. If the heroine's mother and grandmother are supposed to have had intercourse with bulls, the play will be acceptable to the most discriminating modern, Freudian audiences...
...empties out into the country rather than stash the incriminatory bottles in his ash barrel; a lady reincarnationist who believes she once dined with a Pharaoh; the town's Mary Magdalene with whom Floyd finds it sweet to sin. These and other forlorn rebels form a kind of Freudian chorus attesting the ego-twisting power of convention...
...when the boy friend does emerge from analysis. Katie is reduced to complaining: ''I can't get adjusted to the you that got adjusted to me." From here on, she bounces all over the Freudian landscape, sometimes backed by a hot sax (Repressed Hostility Blues), sometimes by a relaxed trumpet (Real Sick Sounds). In a childhood memoir called The Guilty . Rag, she combines a brassy red-hot mamma complex with a mocking, rocking bit of father asphyxiation...
...between three people: a successful Hollywood producer, his wife, and his teen-age son. The plot focuses on the boy, who gets into trouble with the police by--justifiably--hitting a movie theatre manager. But this is not, and does not pretend to be, another of those romanticised pseudo-Freudian essays on the causes of juvenile delinquency. It is a story of people who are sane and whole, but who have the same problems of knowing and communicating with each other that the members of all families have...