Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's tragedy of a Brooklyn longshoreman with an incestuous fixation for his niece may be more Freudian than Greek, but it pulses with the fury, pity and seeming inevitability of obsessive self-destruction. Director Ulu Grosbard and an emotionally committed cast have charged this ten-year-old play with electricity and tenderness...
...particularly for the theologian. He believes that Christianity is essentially a historical religion, borrowing many of its concepts from secular disciplines. The development of theology demands both an adherence to the truths of the past and a transformation in light of new scientific ideas about what science is, post-Freudian insights into the nature of the psyche, changing ideas of the nature of history...
Leary assumes that his "game" perception is common to all psychedlic episodes, whereas Freudian investigators have reported an upsurge of childhood memories and Jungian therepists have reported their own variety of "transcendant experience...
...delineating David's relations with his parents, Roth seems at first a bit obvious. The Freudian psychology is too much in evidence. But remembering that Roth wrote the book over a generation ago, we impute to him greater innocence than to novelists of today. It may be condescension, but it helps. Unbending a little, we discover that the psychology is kept below the surface, and that the most painful matters are gracefully hinted...
...inanimate star of the evening is Sam, a crystal ball that tells the future incorrectly. Hackett, a Coney Island sharper turned pseudo-Freudian mind-sweeper, has great faith in Sam ("it comes from Bombay, the farfetched East"). Under Hackett's lunatic gaze, Sam's face turns red, as well it might, since in Act I the crystal ball mismatches two pairs of lovers: an arm-twisting loan shark (Steve Roland) with a taffy-sweet Ferris-wheel operator (Karen Morrow), and a glib but honest-hearted Coney barker (Richard Kiley) with a roundheeled golddigger (Luba Lisa...