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...similar statement about the bogus exaltation of human tragedy to cathartic spectacle, wherein great men fall from pinnacles in the all-seeing determinist universe of the Fates. Director Laurence Senelick has chosen the Seneca version over the traditional Sophocles "to remove the play from the realms of both Freudian psychology and aloof neo-classicism." This may also mean that he has chosen a play which, because of its gore and violence, leads to a denial that there is anything more in suffering than suffering; a denial that tragedy can be uplifting in transcending itself. The production calls for a belittling...
...theory, which continues to nourish all of psychiatry today? This question has been explored by Benjamin Brody, 50, a New York psychologist. Brody's provocative suggestions, published in Psychotherapy magazine: some of psychoanalysis' most widely accepted canons can perhaps be traced to the unrepresentative nature of the Freudian case load. Since Freud went to great lengths to protect his patients' identities, Brody was able to piece together only 145 case histories, most of them fragmentary. Still, that was enough to suggest some tentative conclusions...
Existential therapy is not so much a new school as a new interpretation of Freudian analysis. It is less interested in the past simply as past; indeed, May defines the past as "having been," a state that survives. Existentialists also quarrel with the common interpretation of the Oedipus complex as the guilt and fear engendered by the male child's attraction to his mother. May and others say that the conflict actually signifies man's refusal to face the truth of his own being. They ask pointedly: What does Oedipus do when he confronts the awful knowledge that...
People and Things. Some critics claim that existential theory differs only semantically from the Freudian, others that it is no more than a cupola added to the edifice that Freud built. In the opinion of Dr. Edith Jacobson, a New York analyst and a staunch Freudian, the whole concept of ego psychology (which deals chiefly with conscious processes) pays much the same respect to the human will that existentialists claim as their own creation...
...Nichols was not making Super-M-A-S-H. From the beginning, he was aware that laughter in Catch-22 was, in the Freudian sense, a cry for help. It is the book's cold rage that he has nurtured. In the jokes that matter, the film is as hard as a diamond, cold to the touch and brilliant to the eye. To Nichols, Catch-22 is "about dying"; to Arkin, it is "about selfishness"; to audiences, it will be a memorable horror comedy of war, with the accent on horror...