Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the papa of psychiatry. Montgomery Clift does fairly well as Freud, but sometimes looks more like a patient than a psychiatrist...
...Freud. Director John Huston has turned out an intense, intelligent cinemonograph on the early struggles of the Viennese papa of psychiatry. Montgomery Clift does fairly well as Freud, but sometimes looks more like a patient than a psychiatrist. Susannah York plays a hysteric...
Freudian Phase. After breaking with him, Lou took on several more lovers, had an abortion, finally went to Vienna to see what psychoanalysis could do for her. There she attended Freud's seminars and seduced one of Freud's disciples. But Lou's Vienna phase was her last sexual fling. She spent her post-Freudian years with her husband in sublimated happiness in Germany, where she died...
Most Americans have been touched by Freud's great work-some by taking psychiatric treatment, many by observing its effects in others, many more by living in a cultural climate fraught with Freudian ideas. Familiarity may breed some contempt: the film at times seems quaintly elementary. Furthermore, no competent modern psychiatrist accepts the theory that most neuroses take a sexual provenance. Freud, like Columbus, mistook the new world he discovered for something it was not. Nevertheless, it was Freud who saw the way when all the world was blind, and who followed it where all men feared...
David and Lisa is a tribute much more deeply touching: a story of two terrified children, lost in the deep black mine of the mind, who are found there by the means that Freud discovered and are led back to life by the bright red thread of love...