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...York City landscape of August is littered with suicides, failed marriages, estranged children and an assortment of ambivalent sexual identities. The one successful relationship is built between two women: Dawn Henley, 18 at the outset, an orphaned college student, and Dr. Lulu Shinefeld, her fortyish psychoanalyst. In classic Freudian fashion, the patient seeks a surrogate parent. The analyst, a divorcee and failed mother, comes to view her patient as a surrogate daughter. Each woman uses the analytic relationship to relive, and make up for, errors that were made in their other lives outside the room with the couch. Ironically...
...schoolgirl after learning that mommies stayed home like her aunt and daddies worked like the girlfriend.) Though any first-year psych major could offer a working hypothesis of what went wrong, Dawn and Lulu spend endless sessions on the long search for revelation. The ideology of the trek is Freudian, yet its contrived sexual oddities are not plumbed for meaning; they are treated as ordinary, which has a preachy effect of consciousness raising...
...categorize all aspects of human behavior and was qualified to counsel. But many of her judgements struck me as superficial and off-the-mark. While listening to one outlandish analysis after another of mutual friends and acquaintainces, whose innocuous behavior she ascribed to twisted motives and deep-hidden Freudian urges. I kept in mind the fact that she herself had remained with an abusive husband for eight years. On top of it all, at 30 years of age, she was a veritable social cripple, self-conscious to the point of timidity, yet explosively angry whenever she did manage to summon...
Officials moved quickly to scotch any attempt to draw Freudian implications from the error. "It was just me making a mistake," said Ilana Rhodes, publications editor in the Office of the Registrar, which puts together the catalogue. "I was probably just looking at another piece of paper," she added...
...study proposed that after the crucial Freudian years of six to eight, a child suddenly becomes proficient at recording complex script memories. "That analysis led us to become interested in when the flashbulb goes off," White says...