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...play, which is based on the tragedy "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles gains modernity from the Freudian influence which is dominant in its construction. In the Greek play, Oedipus was sent away from home because it was predicted that he would kill his father and commit incest. Returning unexpectedly, he kills his father in ignorance of his identify, and marries his mother to become king. The play concerns the discovery of his position, and the retribution which overtakes him and his bride, Iocasta...
Surréalisme is a complicated Freudian school of art which numbers among its aims an attempt to express the subconscious by portraying distortions of familiar objects. Its leaders are Joan Miro and Salvador Dali who this week in Manhattan's Julien Levy Gallery exhibited his latest works. He had drawn people with roses for eyes, lamb chops for lips, an aged man with a lobster on his head, a melting grand piano. Claiming to be "obsessed" with Millet's Angelus, he showed variants of the motif with wheel-headed gleaners picking up forks and a poached...
...placed in slot machines on every corner, in case of emergency" only to discover that he is in the wrong convention. Flying Down to Rio (RKO). In the current cycle of musicomedies there are three major types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive comedies based on the real careers of the actors involved, like Going Hollywood (see col. 1); 3) semi-sophisticated romances like Flying Down to Rio. For Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans was hired to write the music for four songs: "Flying Down...
...funny, but Helen herself was never more seductive than the index to Wheeler's "Science of Psychology." The subtle poison permeated the Vagabond's veins, and he found himself choosing from the shelf "The Mentality of Apes." By degrees this enticed him to "Man and Woman," to "The Freudian Wish," and then to Ruth Shoule Cavan's "Suicide." No Vagabond could abandon that shelf without a glance at "The Aesthetic Attitude," but it seemed wisest to top the selection with a hearty passage from Professor Boring's own history of psychology; in this were thirty-seven indexed subjects under...
...given sex invariably prefer the parent of the opposite sex, etc. etc. This is of particular interest because I made no such statement. . . . The statement I actually made, in response to a question asked by the chairman of the meeting, was that my data seemed to bear out the Freudian hypothesis [that a child invariably prefers the parent of opposite sex] but that there were many exceptions. ROSS STAGNER University of Wisconsin Madison...