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...poetic ancestors include druids, sun worshipers, fertility ritualists, wizards of Welsh folklore, psalmists and hymnists, the Bible. To this complex half-pagan, half-devout inheritance, Thomas has added more up-to-date influences-the intense experience of his boyhood in the Welsh countryside, his passionate faith in the Freudian conception of life as a struggle between the desire to procreate and the desire to find oblivious peace in death. Wholly absent from his poems are humor and political ideology: he reduces his rich and strange harvest of influences and beliefs simply to a "record of my individual struggle from darkness...
...producers deserve some applause for their great restraint in not including one smutty story or involved Freudian ballet, but the book is so flimsy as to defy exposition. It is more than likely that New Yorkers will stay away from "Toplitsky" in droves should the show strvive its Hub stay and the long, cold trip south on the New Haven...
...Insatiable Appetite. When Freud read Stendhal's memoirs of his childhood and adolescence he called them "a manifestation of psychological genius." Stendhal, he saw, had been a Freudian some 70 years before Freud himself...
...illustrate this cozy miracle, Dali characteristically drew on his modern and Freudian imagination instead of trying to recapture Cellini's childish wonder. Result: Dali's salamander looked more like a roasting, disjointed dragon on a barbecue spit...
Cheated of Pain. Dr. Sawyer's deliveries were not wholly painless, he admits, but the pain was not only tolerable (in normal deliveries) but was "lost . . . in a kind of ecstasy and pride. . . ." His analysis of feminine psychology borrows from Dr. Helene Deutsch of Boston, a temperate Freudian who notes in her two-volume Psychology of Women that an "increasing number of women" react strangely to the "perfect painless delivery" produced by modern anesthetics. They feel cheated, disappointed and "empty," sometimes think the baby is not theirs but that of another woman...