Word: freudianly
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...gallery. Where artists share a space, as with Celmins and Orozco, the curators' pairings are almost always smart and appropriate. Only the pairing of Wendy Ewald's photographs of children's dreams with Sue Williams' painted entanglements of sexual organs and orifices seems heavy-handed and literal in its Freudian pop psychology...
...displays of institutional continuity. (A nickel, please, for every TV commentator who used the phrase "orderly passage of power.") But this Inauguration Day seemed more of a pretense than usual--the disjuncture between what was going on and what was really going on starker, like one of those neo-Freudian sophomoric plays of the 1950s in which characters speak their lines, then say what they are thinking under the lines...
...collection of essays by writers and poets, he contends that contemporary authors are better qualified than Bible experts to explicate what he sees primarily as a secular masterpiece. Indeed, both Phillip Lopate's disconcerting contribution about playing Abraham in an Abraham-Sarah-Pharaoh triangle and David Mamet's Freudian riff on the Flood make for enjoyable reading. But Rosenberg's thesis is sorely tested by The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (Image), a wonderful book by Living Conversation participant and Orthodox Midrash expert Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg. Her chapter on the Flood beats Mamet's hands down...
...productions. But here it somehow manages to seem fresh as clouds boil around the head of an angry Celeste and magic potions glow with cosmic energy. Indeed, the fortune-telling visions of the astrologist and the odd herbal concoctions of the witch-doctor seem hardly stranger than the post-Freudian tactics of the head-shrinker...
...watching U.S. films as well as local sci-fi TV shows in his native Germany. "For me," he says, "going on a science-fiction movie set is like visiting toyland. You see, my brother trashed all my toys when I was a kid. It's very Freudian. For my movies you can blame my brother Andy...