Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attributing the sexiness that is weakening America to Freudian influences, he said that Russia's great strength may lie in the fact that Russians generally regard the Freudian theory as nonsense...
Since Mother is played by Mary Boland, Lullaby is considerably more farcical than Freudian. And since Mother-when not making herself pathetic and ill-used with every weapon in the Momist kit-proves a good deal of an old rip, Veteran Actress Boland comes through in her breeziest style of impeccable low comedy. Each of her intrusions on her son and daughter-in-law (well played by Jack Warden and Kay Medford) makes a bright little blob of color for the play...
JOHN J. PHILLIPS, C.S.SP. Pittsburgh Sir: . . . The Virgin Mary is not a Freudian hook to hang a frustrated hat on. She simply is the Mother of God, and will, with her open arms, accept and receive even those who despise her, acting as Mediatrix, advocate and helper. As a lawyer, I know the value of a good advocate ; as a married Catholic man with a happy home life, I know the value of a good wife and helper; but ... a man still needs God, and without Mary there...
...California coast, and contrasts the happy-animal life of a gaggle of Mexicans with the mental distress of half a dozen Americans in just about every stage of neurotic obsession. Widowed Judith Anderson, the undisputed queen of this domain, is superbly in command from the very start. Like a Freudian Madame Defarge, she knits in purposeful accompaniment to the sound of her own voice falling like a cleaver on her tremble-chinned daughter (Elizabeth Ross), who peeps in terror from a vine-enclosed summerhouse across the garden. Even marriage to a Saroyanesque young man (Logan Ramsey) fails to save...
...Women! (by Edward Chodorov) is an engaging comedy about the love affair between a middle-aged psychoanalyst (Franchot Tone) and a Freudian slip of a girl (Betsy von Furstenberg). On his wedding eve, Tone is disconcerted to learn from a new patient that his bride-to-be has a lurid past. A second patient, Anne Jackson, reveals that her embittered movie-star husband has decided to seduce Tone's fiancee to see if the analyst "can take it as well as dish...