Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot has curious Freudian undertones: round-faced Gale Storm, 31, and her prancing-goat TV father, played by oldtime Silent Cinemactor Charles (Seventh Heaven) Farrell, 51, spend their half-hour each week trying to keep each other from falling in love with outsiders who might break up their cozy family of two. Margie has made the jump from television (sponsor: Scott Paper Co.) to radio, where Philip Morris has it on both CBS and Mutual. It is thus the first radio and TV show to span three networks. On radio the Nielsen ratings place it third, behind Lux Theater...
Casler's compact little bundle of emotion," "Inhibitions," and 'multicolored organism' are faintly, reminiscent of a Freudian biology text...
Feeling of a Conqueror. Looking into Freud's childhood is like looking at psychoanalysis studying its reflection in a mirror. All the principal Freudian units are, quite "unconsciously," making their first grand march through the streets of Wonderland-with lusty Private Libido (infantile sexuality) beating his big drum, and General Repression sternly rebuking Major Oedipus (for jealousy of father coupled with excessive love of mother). And yet an air of medieval superstition mingles with this up-to-date atmosphere. Sigmund was "born in a caul," i.e., with part of his prenatal envelope still swaddling him, and an old woman...
...consulting room, stretched his patients upon it, and urged them to sweep their chimneys. Sometimes he hypnotized them, sometimes encouraged them to be frank by asking gentle questions. But one day a patient "reproved him for interrupting her flow of thought," and Freud "took the hint." Another Freudian law, that of "free association" on the patient's part and silence on the doctor's, came into being...
...writings as a brilliant young practitioner in the safe sun of the Edwardian era. He reacted as though he had found the elixir of life. He mastered German to extract the full flavor of every word, and introduced psychoanalysis to a shocked England. Orthodox physicians (in the Freudian phrase) ventilated their aggressions on the pioneer analysts...