Word: freudianly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sheer artistry, Sons and Lovers escapes its Freudian obsession with the mother-son relationship, and establishes itself as a classic human document expressed in lyric prose. But since then (1913) Author Lawrence has played less the artist and more the psychiatrist, his favorite study still the positive and negative reactions of sex attraction and repulsion. At their best the short stories of the present collection are a neurological graph done into Lawrence's powerful prose, and at their predominant worst (witness the title story) they are queer extravaganzas of symbology...
...invested them with a gay cameradie. In point of morals, however, Mr. Duffus let himself pass judgement. His is the opinion, now becoming widespread, that the undergraduate is no better or worse than his predecessors, that he is "fundamentally sound." The student here at Harvard is credited with no Freudian repressions while studying. "Even now the Harvard boy conspicuously ignores the feminine intruder, though he has to put up with Radcliffe girls... But he does look forward to the feminine company of his festive weekends with unmitigated pleasure...
...Quinn Collection in Manhattan, old ladies and dilettantes gathered round an object, gaping, making a murmur of "Is it a bird? If it isn't, what is it? Whatever it is, is it art?" It was tall, shiny, spindling, like a magnification of an exclamation point, like a Freudian symbol. Manufactured by famed Sculptor Constantin Brancusi of Rumania, it was titled, with a supreme disregard of appearance, with an arrogant, baffling simplicity, "The Bird...
...triumphs of Ufa, German film creators. It is a dramatic picturization of the knife couple, of one of those who sit at the knee of Herr Freud. Why does nice Mr. Hero want to slit his wife's throat? Follow the dream and find out. Many a Freudian symbol will probably elude the spectator while a scrupulously scientific fantasy of the less definitely conscious mind is revealed on the screen. But the tense climax, the amazing photography cannot escape notice or fail of effect. When the psychoanalyst explains to the patient the cause of his wanting to knife...
...Wisdom Tooth" at the Hollis Expounds a Not-So-Freudian Form of Self-Realization...