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...Fisher adds: "Despite any. . . reservations that have prevented me from becoming a rah-rah boy of the Freudian school, I am quite sure that the contributions of Sigmund Freud toward the advancement of psychotherapy far outweigh the contributions of any other ten men I have...
...flashing language. But it is just here that Author Agee falters, clothing the action with symbols for which he furnishes no clear keys. As Richard and the others march back to school to face their punishment for playing hooky, Agee's final meaning lags somewhere behind, among the Freudian trees...
...clear," says the psychiatrist to whom George betakes himself, "that a deep unconscious conflict in you [has] been working its way to the surface for a long time." This is more than poor George is given a chance to do himself, as the analyst gallops him down into the Freudian underworld and introduces him to such alarming spooks as his own ego, superego and lusty id. "Do you mean that I have three personalities, but am only conscious of one?" howls poor George...
Neumann dreads large classes. Once, lecturing before a large group of students at Yale, he had occasion to criticize John Gunther's pseudo-Freudian explanations of famous men and events and went on to dissect thoroughly the famous author. At the end of the lecture, a sweet young thing who had been sitting in the back row of the spacious room came up and introduced herself as Mrs. Gunther. The experience left Neumann wary...
...entertaining and, now & again, incisive. But it emerges less comedy than drama, and less drama than a problem-play department store-3rd Floor: Career Women, Psychic Paralysis, Drugs; 4th Floor: Infidelity, Homosexuality, Adjustment Bureau. Often the elevator has scarcely time to stop, keeps rushing on-5th Floor: Duty Salon, Freudian Snack...