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Eddie (William Hurt) has a desperate urge to make connections. "I don't know what pertains to me," he cries, striving to locate defining links between himself and the world as he feverishly scans the political news in the paper or tries to make sense of the post-Freudian gabble of his friends. Distracted, he abuses emotional ties that are so close at hand he could touch them were he only to reach out. His best friends have simplified these problems: tough Phil (Harvey Keitel) makes most of his conjunctions with his fists; Artie (Jerry Stiller) is hooked into...
...that wasn't always the case Ancient Greek tragedy portrayed the definitive screw-up. There's no way you can argue that Oedipus, the father of screwing up if you're a Freudian, was responsible for what happened to him. The oracle said he would sleep with his mother and kill his father, so he did what any sensible person would do. He left town. Then he pushed that limit, took those risks, to become king. And Fate tripped him up. Just like Newman and Redford, or those test pilots who crash in flames early on in The Right Staff...
Greenfeld convincingly evokes the terrain where he has lived for more than a decade, winning an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of his novel Harry and Tonto and psychic bruises from the failures of unluckier projects. In the Freudian setting of a studio men's room, producers trade angst-drenched conversation about whose career is bigger. Aging men who cannot control their appetites go in search of one-night stands and "kosher diet tacos." A rabbi pronouncing a eulogy reaches his apogee with the solemn question, "And who of us does not love show business...
...only bastion of pure Id on an extraordinarily neurotic and repressed campus. You'd hardly have to be a literal Freudian to think that this is what the conflict is all about. Paul Attanasio...
...Assault on Truth raises important questions about the origins of psychoanalysis and the rationale for Freud's emphasis on fantasy life, but it may not--as Masson predicts--signal the imminent demise of Freudian psychoanalysis. He clearly distorts much of Freud's later work in order to bring out a contrast with his earlier theories. Freud never excluded real experiences from the realm of psychoanalysis, as Masson contends, but rather came to recognize the importance of fantasy and of personal distortions of actual occurrences in shaping human recollections. General Freudian dian orthodoxy involves a mixture of the two "realities...