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Nearly every psychologist is forced to modify Freud's theories of sexual determinism. . . . Your Medicine editor exposes nothing but his own folly when he equates Jung and Adler with Freud as the "Big Three" of psychoanalysis, and writes of the Freudian "monotheism" as though it were a slightly faded joke...
Under the watchful eye of Manhattan's Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 70, pocket-sized, learned apostle who knew Freud in 1908 in Vienna, the Freudians hold it necessary for salvation that the neurotic sinner be subjected to total immersion (perhaps 200 or more one-hour sessions) to wash him down to the childhood facts behind neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist...
Love & Hate. The Yearbook recites a litany familiar to devout Freudians-love that is really hate and submissiveness that is aggression, as well as much stuff that anybody's grandmother would have dismissed as just a dirty thought. But in the case histories, new & old, translated for the most part out of the Freudian pig-Latin into something resembling the vulgar tongue, the Freudians talk so that laymen can usually understand their sex theory. Examples...
...woman who does not really enjoy housekeeping but persists in "dutiful or neurotic drudgery" and complains to everybody about it. Freudian explanation: she is probably sexually maladjusted, since people should like work, which is a form of sexual satisfaction, besides satisfying an "instinct to master" the environment...
...Spirit (Universal) climbs likably if loutishly aboard one of the only two "trends" discernible in rudderless current movies. Like Wonder Man and Where Do We Go From Here?, it is a comic fantasy. (The other trend, well represented by Conflict-see above-is crime melodrama with Freudian parsley...