Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taken as a case history of children warped by the self-indulgence of parents, The Watchman would seem like one of the more lurid chunks of a psychiatrist's notebook. But Grubb's debt to Freud is trifling compared with the grotesque vision of evil he has drawn from his imagination. As rape, adultery and warped fear of sex move through the book, tensions are set up. relaxed, and recharged right to the macabre ending. Sometimes Grubb's people speak and act with inspired sureness; at other times they simply deliver bombast. Few novelists overwrite so shamelessly...
...than "She shouldn't, but will she?" Now everyone assumes that she will, but should she? The question is of grave concern to young women, their parents, psychiatrists and friends, but it is not a very good theme for an entire novel. A snickering approach inevitably blasphemes against Freud, and a serious treatment defames Boccaccio. In this somewhat disappointing book, Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis, most famous of the new British school of "red brick" writers,* takes a seriocomic line, thus offending both heroes...
Bentley attacked the modern sanctimonious attitude toward marriage ("the family that prays together, stays together") which attributes the cause of America's "moral crisis" to jokes about adultery. Agreeing with Freud, he said that such jokes offer a safety valve to the "normal desire to destroy the family relationship, to desecrate the hearth...
...Harvard Classes find in them a kind of a assuagement for never having attended a school of higher learning. It becomes so pleasant and so challenging for an experienced but unschooled adult to be given the opportunity to think like an adult, to think, really, with Socrates, Shakespeare, Freud, and Einstein...
...time colleague of Sigmund Freud and a practising psychoanalyst, Viktor E. Frank, professor at the University of Vienna, will lecture on the abnormal personality and direct a seminar...