Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Sigmund Freud saw his first movie-on a trip to New York in September 1909-he was "quietly amused" by what Biographer Ernest Jones describes as "one of the primitive films of those days with plenty of wild chasing." Odds are that he would scarcely be amused by a film now in the script stage and headed for the cameras next year, when an independent group led by Director John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) and Producer Wolfgang Reinhardt (son of Max) go to Vienna to make a movie about Sigmund Freud...
Casting Problem. The film will deal with only ten years of Freud's life, the early era of professional discovery, and center on three main characters: Freud; his teacher, Dr. Josef Breuer; and an attractive young patient called Cecilie, a part drawn from the histories of several early Freud patients but mainly from the famed Anna O., a patient of Breuer's in whose case Freud became interested. She liked to talk about her symptoms because somehow that relieved her. Anna O. described the process as "chimney sweeping"; for Freud it was the foundation of the concept...
...plot now planned, Dr. Breuer first analyzes Cecilie and she falls in love with him. Breuer meets that little transference with an enthusiastic countertransference-until Mrs. Breuer finds out about it. Freud takes over, solves the dilemma and resolves the case.* This leads him into the marathon of self-probing-mainly into the causes of his antagonism toward his father and his deep love for his mother-that he eventually generalized as the Oedipus complex...
After the script, the most urgent problem is casting. Marilyn Monroe has expressed interest in the part of Cecilie, and there are fond hopes of acquiring Marlon Brando for the part of Sigmund Freud. Brando, after all, made his stage debut in I Remember Mama...
Unfortunately, this gives Wink time for some rueful reflections. After all, he remembers the New England hurricane of 1938, before Gin was two. He remembers Benny Goodman, and he cannot forget Freud and girls who marry father surrogates. Then there is Gin's mother. As a penthouse-mistress of the theater and TV set with a not-so-secret yen for Wink, she resents a marriage that will blight the promise of adultery. What with mother and some complicated skulduggery back at the NBS network, it sometimes seems that the rice will never fly, but it does...