Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peninsula thinks homosexuality is "unnatural"? Who cares, so is Astroturf. And cow manure is natural. Peninsula's writers should think carefully before they equate their version of "unnatural" with "bad." What is not necessarily what ought to be. And Peninsula's self-proclaimed experts on love, sex, marriage and Freud don't seem to have much of a clue about what is, anyway...
...Freud on the Subject...
...official word came from Assistant Professor of psychology Todd F. Heatherton, who teaches Psychology 1. The term anal retentive, he explains, was first used by the inventor of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, to describe people who are fixated at the anal stage of psychosexual development...
...latest autobiographical stage monologue, Monster in a Box, is intellectual, entertaining theater. Gray describes the monologue, his 13th, as being "about a man who can't write a book about a man who can't take a vacation." Monster in a Box is both brilliant and funny, expertly combining Freud's intellectualism with the scatological humor involved in recounting a total soybean diet--which Gray once experienced while depressed in Houston...
...spirit, it features the obligatory mad monster, fair maiden, evil scientist and heroic space pilot. Sci-fi junkies will recognize the plot from the 1956 MGM flick Forbidden Planet, which the more literary-minded in turn saw as an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Tempest and dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play God.) Writer-director Bob Carlton blended that cult-movie narrative with snippets of dialogue, some in blank verse (and occasionally in blank mind), and a stompfest of '50s and '60s rock...