Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KNIFE IN THE WATER. A Polish thriller about three people aboard a Freudian sloop on which there's many a slip...
...there any Freudian theory you find unacceptable?" one spectator asked the tall child psychologist. Spock answered that he only found fault with several modern interpretations of Freud. "I can never get over how smart Freud was," Spock added, "not to have tried to advise parents how to bring up their children...
Psychiatric Seismographs. Like many another experimental French novelist today, Nathalie Sarraute is trying to break away both from stereotyped Victorian emotions like honor, love and greed and from the equally crude Freudian categories of guilt and sexuality. Unlike the others, however, she has not retreated into eye-catching but sterile gimmickry-writing only about things and objective surfaces, for example, or offering as a novel a box of unnumbered pages. Instead, she has returned to the world of minute inner impulses, best explored in the past by Dostoevsky. Too delicate to be recorded on the rough seismographs of the psychoanalysts...
KNIFE IN THE WATER. A sexy Polish thriller about three people aboard a Freudian sloop on which there's many a slip...
During this ordeal, Quentin-Miller is agonized but strangely inhumane. In one telling scene where Maggie-Marilyn is crawling across the floor begging him to take the pills away from her, he lectures her with stony and selfish Freudian logic: "I take them; and then we fight, and then I give them up, and you take the death from me. You see what's happening? You've been setting me up for a murder...