Word: freuds
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...because this is the 25th anniversary of his proclamation, with the help of Robert Hutchins, of the "Great Books of the Western World." To organize that 5-ft. 1-in. shelf, Adler bestowed the title of greatness on 443 works by 74 authors, but denied it to anyone after Freud and William James...
Holly Stevens is no Elliott Roosevelt, leaping in where Freud would fear to tread. But she does not shun legitimate speculation: Stevens' oblique, sensuous references and metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form...
Like Yeats' bird, Casanova does not relate to the present world. A vast space remains present between audience and screen, an acute consciousness of the gap between the work of art and any possible reality. By keeping us at this distance from the dream which Freud proved to be man's fundamental reality--sex--Fellini captures our sole potentially uninhibited creative fantasy. And then he shows us it is no more than show...
Other articles in the journal play down the importance of the castration complex, which Freud believed always preceded the Oedipus complex; he felt that the drive to love and bear children arises from woman's sense of being mutilated, her feeling of loss. Psychiatrist Henri Parens, for one, reports that his observations of children show that a sense of castration and penis envy sometimes occur after the Oedipal problem...
...they erode the idea that penis envy is the dominant, devastating factor in female experience. In fact, Clower suggests that there will be more changes when Freudians digest the mass of data accumulated in recent years about sexuality and child behavior. Says she: "Today, more than 40 years after Freud's original propositions, we are still talking about penis envy, female castration and woman's masculinity complex. Freud revised his theories many times as he accumulated new data and reached fresh insights. Contemporary analysts should do no less...