Word: freudians
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...don’t think the dead care about vengeance,” he says with false detachment. Vesper, though, would be jealous of Camille, a woman of unassuming complexity—one whose flaws and idiosyncrasies are taken for granted, not announced in a flashy Freudian face-off like the one that introduces Vesper. Camille too seeks revenge, and admits to Bond with wry satisfaction that she slept with the film’s villain, Dominic Greene (a wonderful Mathieu Amalric), to get closer to the Bolivian general who killed her family. Lest the two spies seem like...
...whether the novel even merited movie treatment. The film’s unusual twist does little more than further muddle the message of what was already a quiet flop.Victor’s search for familial identity and his choking scheme clearly complement his sex addiction and the Freudian construct of the return to the womb—in Victor’s words, “Perfect, beautiful nothing.” A fitting description for “Choke”—if only it had been more inquisitive or given its viewers more credit...
Biden's Achilles heel has always been his own tongue. Indeed, when Obama flubbed his introduction of Biden in Springfield, the McCain campaign pounced calling it not only a "Freudian slip" ("Obama sounded as though he turned over the top spot on the ticket today to his new mentor," said McCain spokesman Ben Porritt) but the Republicans also alluded to Biden criticisms of Obama's campaign, when both were still rivals for the nomination. Said Porritt: "The reality is that nothing has changed since Joe Biden first made his assessment that Barack Obama is not ready to lead. He wasn...
...aggravation is understandable. He is dedicating his life to a field many people, including members of his own family, “don’t really buy.” Typically, the term “psychology” conjures up an image of a Freudian-type, cigar in hand, interpreting the dreams of an anxiety-ridden housewife lying prostrate on a couch...
...back of the mix, interrupted only by the chorus, a gregarious proclamation of the title.On previous albums, Merritt’s lyrics poked fun at contemporary conceptions of sex. “Distortion,” however, pushes those levels beyond the absurd and into the downright Freudian, with characters that indulge admittedly confused desires for sex and death in equal (and sometimes identical) measure. “California Girls,” an infectious pop guitar-wash featuring vocals from Shirley Simms, turns from antipathy for synthetic O.C. ditzes to an axe-wielding thirst for bimbo blood...