Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...literature that men have read or the problems that have puzzled them for ceaturies, perhaps the encounter should be put off until a student's departmental education is in part behind him. The CEP plan arrives at the happy compromise of letting the student decide whether to tangle with Freud and Plato as a freshman or as a senior...
...heroine (Arlene Francis) is a middle-aged housewife- romantic despondent, full of vague aspirations', and a bit of a nit - who doesn't know whether to put her faith in Freud or Betty Fnedan. She is carrying on an illicit affair with an Italian-American sex mechanic (Robert Forster) who is young enough to be her son. She tries to inoculate the boy with culture by drooling John Donne to him, but he is a resolutely monosyllabic nobrow...
...Clear Day, however, remains the lack of integration. The concept of an analyst in love with his patient's ESP predecessor, however far-out it might sound, does lend itself to dramatic treatment. But Lerner has tossed in an assortment of potshots, such as the constant jibes at Freud or at the organization man, typified by Daisy's slick boyfriend. These humorous tidbits bear no relation to the main line of the play, and one suspects that bringing in Mort Sahl for a few ten minute interludes would be far more effective. The songs which occur during these offshots suffer...
...driven by the threat of emotional dismemberment to seek the true center of his personality. The search for this "secret node" in which all conflicts could be reconciled was Goethe's obsession, and in pursuit of it he broke open vast new tracts of the dark continent where Freud and Jung, a century later, made their greatest discoveries...
...papier-mache shields from the ponderous, four-opera Ring cycle in favor of a treatment as stark and simple as Greek tragedy. Last week Bayreuth audiences were witnessing Wieland's second thoughts and second revolution. He had recast the Ring in the latter-day terms of Jung and Freud. "I wanted to show how many archetypic, primordial, age-old and yet permanently renewing elements of mankind are contained in my grandfather's tetralogy," says Wieland, "and secondly, to prove it is a crime story and chiller of the first order-blood, murder and sex, with more surprise...