Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the years The Turn of the Screw has become more than a notable ghost story to chill the blood: it has become a kind of highbrow mystery story to challenge the mind. Pre-Freudian but often strikingly akin to Freud, it hints at something sexual in the governess' feeling for the boy, at something homosexual between the boy and the valet. It has been explained, a little too ingeniously, as a pure hallucination of the governess'. But first, last and always, it is a ghost story; and ghosts owe their audiences only an experience, not an explanation...
...childhood repressions. Most of these, he held, center around the "Oedipus Complex," a boy's jealousy of his mother's love for his father and his desire to get the old man out of the way so that he can have her all to himself. The Freudian prescription: reduce the pressure from the unconscious by getting the patient to remember and understand what he was repressing. From the Christian viewpoint man's misery and evil are the result of Original Sin. The prescription: faith in Jesus Christ as Redeemer. The cures are obviously the same thing, says...
...accordion foldout, a page of Fleur's own self-assured handwriting in gold ink on blue paper, pages of odd sizes and varied textures. To readers familiar with Fleur's wearing of a rose as a trademark, Flair's frontispiece was the most Fleurish -and Freudian-touch of all: it was a reproduction of Girl with Roses by Artist Lucian Freud, grandson of Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud...
...20th Century-Fox). "WARNING!" cry the ads for this picture. "If you are easily hypnotized, don't see it alone." The copywriter must have confused the hypnotic with the soporific. As the latest case history in five-reel psychiatry, with some Mesmer thrown in, the movie is a Freudian slip...
...McMurry is convinced that U.S. industry generally gives its workers material benefits in such bounty as to leave little cause for complaint. Why, then, do so many workers turn against management and rush to join unions which often make punitive demands on management? Using the Freudian "psychodynamic" approach, Dr. McMurry holds that today's adult "is not nearly so far removed from childhood as people think ... In an increasingly complex socio-economy, we are dealing with selfish, dependent, hedonistic, wishful-thinking, amoral and quite immature individuals, emotionally like a child of four...