Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with, like a man who drinks before noon. First, there was the song about Mommy kissing him on the sly--and of course that reindeer with the bulbous nose (probably acquired from "nightcaps" during the long polar dark). But now, the flood-gates are opened. We will be hearing Freudian chuckles about Santa's pipe, husbands will be accused of wearing invisible antlers; children will be warned about fat, beared men who get too friendly...
...Creighton and its chief inhabitants, the most important of whom is "the treatment man," an assistant warden and psychologist who is symbolically named Pryor. Also called the Messiah, he is a vaguely evangelical figure with a jade ring and an MG, who keeps most of the inmates under his Freudian thumb. As the story flickers between Convict Desai and Counselor Sharon, it is clear that there are flaws in Psychologist Pryor's penmanship. For one thing, what is apparently "the best state-run maximum-security penitentiary in the United States" has a social organization based squarely on the proposition...
...sluttish earth-mother figure and the doomed, self-destructive wastrel have appeared before in Eugene O'Neill's plays; some day--if it has not happened already--a Freudian scholar will write a book confirming our suspicions as to what these figures meant to their creator. Meanwhile, here they are again, livid with agony, struggling to find more than a painful, temporary peace in one another's arms...
...University of Illinois' famed Researcher 0. Hobart Mowrer began with vigorous kicks at the moribund body of classical Freudian theory as he defined it (many latter-day Freudians would not buy his definition). "We psychologists." Mowrer said, ""have largely followed the Freudian doctrine that human beings become emotionally disturbed, not because of their having done anything palpably wrong, but because they instead lack insight. We have set out to oppose the forces of repression and to work for understanding. [This leads to] the discovery that the patient or client has been, in effect, too good, that he has within...
...Freudian theory, said Dr. Mowrer scornfully, "one would expect neurotic and psychotic individuals to have led exemplary, yea saintly lives. The fact is that they typically exhibit lives that have been disorderly and dishonest in extreme degree.'' And mental hospitals, he charged, are full of patients who have had insight therapy-to no avail...