Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Innocents. This psychiatric chiller, based on The Turn of the Screw, owes as much to Sigmund Freud as it does to Henry James, but the photography is wonderfully spooky and the heroine (Deborah Kerr) exquisitely kooky...
...furniture shrouded in dust cloths. He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks and brawlers. "These relics of feudalism," he muses, "such relationships . . . were equally ruinous to the servant and the served." Augustine is enlightened; he belongs to an age that Freud, Marx and Einstein have liberated from God and other superstitions...
...Liberal M.P. brother-in-law, a man with "permanently indignant eyes" who is concerned solely with his intrigues against "that nasty little goat," Lloyd George, and thinks "free trade" is the major issue of the day. There is also Jeremy, a cynical Tory friend from Oxford, who, thanks to Freud, is also "a member of the first generation in the whole history of the human race completely to disbelieve in sin." He gibes at Augustine for "his rooted dislike of ever giving orders." "Can't you see it's intolerable for the ruled themselves when the ruling class...
...Innocents. This psychiatric chiller, based on The Turn of the Screw, owes as much to Sigmund Freud as it does to Henry James, but the photography is wonderfully spooky and the heroine (Deborah Kerr) exquisitely kooky...
Sylva, by Vercors. A fox becomes a girl, offering French Novelist Vercors endless opportunities for instructive irony; perhaps the author's best notion is that the girl's protector must consult Freud to give her some much-needed inhibitions...