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...wife was a psychology major. She still thinks a Freudian slip is something you wear under a transparent dress... All these college students are running around these days, you know with the hair and everything, listening to the Beatles and everything--it's getting so you can't tell the boys from the girls...And now my daughter starts telling me about this "pre-marital sex" business. The neighborhood where I grew up was so rough that my wife doesn't even believe in post-marital sex...No Respect...And that's another thing...Kids today are so spoiled...
...plot of Caligula is unspectacular: young, idealistic prince turns into ruthless emperor; ruthless emperor regrets past sins and kills himself--a Freudian explanation for the motives behind the suicide (the death of the emperor's sister-mistress) is available for those non-believers in the true power of spiritual anguish. But the philosophical and moral message of the play is much closer to post-Marxian France than to Rome during the Pax Romana. The young, callow Caligula recognizes the hypocrisy of the dominant values and mores. Devoted to exposing the irrationality of society, he sets out to accomplish the impossible...
Perhaps we should credit Woody Allen with popularizing these neo-Freudian ideas about wit. Allen manifestly began tracing a path through his jokes into his unconscious, often parodying Freudian symbolism but in the process probing among the tickles for that raw spot which when touched would twitch with pain. Sometimes wit--which most people think of as an aid in relieving anxiety--becomes the enemy: a steadfast shield that keeps our insides moist and pink, halting our emotional development and hindering our ability to be intimate with other people. So much...
...drank coffee and with whom she guzzled Scotch. Descriptions of living room decor also fail to enhance the reader's understanding of American Communism's nature, romantic or otherwise. And, in most instances, her discourses on her subjects' family histories are of interest only to an eager parlor Freudian...
...movie is credible. Dip beneath the plot and you arrive at a psychological sewer. Among several gratuitous shock tactics, Toback treats the audience to an on-screen prostate examination and the spectacle of two women's heads being smashed together. The film's most persistent Freudian motif is a phallus fixation that borders on the pathological. Though Toback tries hard to emulate the expressionistic style of Director Martin Scorsese, Fingers never amounts to more than a flamboyantly neurotic drive-in movie...