Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eternal Eros. Pure Freudians are rare nowadays, but Brown is so worshipful that he applies Freudian interpretations where Freud never reached. He justifies this by seeing Freud as a Columbus who had time to go so far on uncharted seas and no farther. Some times Brown makes slight alterations in Freud's pioneering map when he feels it is necessary, but more often he exalts him. Says he in Love's Body: "There is only one political problem in our world today: the unification of mankind. That they may be one-ut unum sint. This is Christ...
...screen or stage, Author Albee's catalogue of the games people play tends to become repetitive, larded with Freudian case history, and building to a fairly preposterous climax. When George and Martha agree to lay to rest the ghost of their nonexistent teen-age son, there is solemn talk about the sterility of illusions, but the real issue appears to be a playwright's need to make his verbal fireworks add up to something...
Worms like Sticky Pearls. Outwardly, Sylvia's psychosis has standard Freudian trimmings. Her father, born in the Polish town of Grabow in East Prussia, became a professor of entomology at Boston University and is presented in her poetry as an intellectual tyrant with "a love of the rack and the screw." The mother of the heroine in The Bell Jar, an autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm. Little Sylvia tried to be Daddy's darling. At three she knew the Latin names of hundreds...
...MASTER BUILDER (Caedmon). No single drama of Ibsen's is more Freudian, and hence accessible to the modern mind. The play is a situation tragedy, and the symbols bleed. Solness, the artist-builder-husband, is vile in his self-absorption, and pitiable as he watches the tide of his creativity ebb. His wife is stifling and stifled. The young girl Hilde Wangel is Solness' mirage of the second chance, lost youth, lost inspiration, lost love recovered. But life is a role that man cannot rehearse or reverse. Sir Michael Redgrave as Solness thunders, hisses and froths like...
...former mistress, an affair that seems to have done no harm; yet, without apparent cause, his wife falls desperately ill in his absence. In one episode, a parody of war is enacted by rich undergraduates at a great country house; the aristocracy, we are told in a blurred Freudian attribution, is good only for causing death-their own and others. There is a fancy-dress party at another country house, once notorious as the scene of diabolic revels...