Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter of getting into primitive fancy dress: all the painters involved were 20th century city dwellers, they had read Freud and Jung, some of them (notably Pollock) had been in analysis, and they were well aware that the "savage mind" cannot be mimicked by an act of will. The only form of primitivism available to modern man, their paintings argue in different voices, is the unconscious. Just as the young bourgeois intellectuals who formed surrealism turned their revolt against their own class into something like a religious principle, so the New York painters declared their separation from American materialism...
...runs a cafeteria in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, he is tormented by rowdy youth gangs. "Typewise," says Strasberg, the part is wrong for him. "I'm essentially intellectual, sensitive or scientifically oriented, or whatever you call it," he reflects. Among his dream roles: Kissinger, Einstein and Freud...
...Very well then. By the '70s I will have become an industry, the star of countless films and books. Nicholas Meyer's The Seven- Per-Cent Solution will even make me the client and Sigmund Freud the detective...
...Fall it has been one rude truth after another. Copernicus elbowed us from celestial stage-center with his observation that the earth revolves around the sun. Darwin opened the closet of evolution to introduce family skeletons that further questioned our singular divinity. Under the damp side of civilized behavior, Freud found the perpetually rutting...
...reaches high over the head of a figure not recognizably human. The other arm seems atrophied, dwarf-size. There is one red eye in the center of the face: a favorite Surrealist technical device symolizing both inner and outer vision. "La Fronde" harks back to the theories of Sigmund Freud, one of the great heroes of the founder of the Surrealist movement. A person with a tiny head and huge, bloated body curls around in an endless, crazy, frightened somersault--a Freudian might see it as a picture of someone's terror when they are about to be born...