Word: freudianly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When it comes to the why of Barbara's plight, however, the movie goes rapidly to pieces. Like most Hollywood efforts to pin Freudian labels on human weakness, this one clutters a fairly reasonable plot with murky gibberish...
...wondered about its role in mental disorders. They had one puzzling clue: people with psychoses had fewer allergies. Four years ago, three Manhattan brother-psychiatrists, Drs. Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, began treating patients with histamine. Last year they were joined by Dr. Johan van Ophuijsen, 67, pioneer Dutch Freudian who has been in the U.S. since...
...with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
Even many friendly Viennese were puzzled. Some sought deep significance in the fey comedy; one critic likened Harvey to Hamlet. Moreover, Vienna, which had been proud godmother to Freudian psychiatry, barely recognized that delicate science in its U.S. version. Certainly the alienist in Harvey, who yearns for a maiden and a keg of beer under a shady maple tree, scarcely seemed in the great Viennese tradition of soul-searchers...
Couch or Box? Author Sheen does not denounce all psychiatry, or even all Freudian techniques. He concedes that medical science, in dealing with mental problems that have no ethical or moral causes, "has a vast area in which it can legitimately operate." He objects to Freudian doctrines chiefly when they enter the realm of philosophy with such assertions as "man is an animal and has no free will, or that 'religious doctrines are illusions...