Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill (Freud-follower): "I am heartily opposed to the killing of this woman. . . . Society is based on repression, and the most important repression is the command 'Thou shalt not kill...
...Weston is a member of the psycho-analytical school of writers, a charter member we should say. His technique springs full-armed from the fulminations of Freud. It is a sort of detective mechanism for discovering the well-springs of character. It is deft in the same way that the technique of Conan Doyle is deft. But instead of clues you have complexes; instead of crimes, weaknesses of character. By taking the stuff of complexes, you arrive at the source of a spiritual flaw...
Faintly reminiscent of the clinical casebooks of Freud and Stekel are these ten compact novels, no longer than short stories, written at various times in Schnitzler's career, now translated into English for the first time...
...Sigmund Freud, now 73, suggests how his psychoanalysis is affecting anthropology, study of religion, literary history, education. He also announces: "The belief that in man sexual life begins only at, puberty is incorrect...
...experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief. It is a harrowing study of a widowed farmer and his almost maniacal desire to hold, against odds of youth and love, his young daughter. For his motives, see Freud. The play has a certain intensity of gloom, but much of its force is lost in clumsy ambiguity. However, it permits Miss Bette Davis to do an effective bit of acting as the daughter. For a curtain-raiser there is Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast. This...