Word: neuroticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herman Melville was in hock to his publishers and out of favor with his pubic. Moby Dick had provoked mixed reviews; its successor, Pierre, got savage ones. His readers wanted him to spin more of his early, popular South Sea romances such as Typee and Omoo. Exhausted and distraught, Melville...
Involved in the mix-up are a possessive mother, Yvonne, who in true Freudian fashion does not want her 22-year-old son to marry; her sister Claire, who has always been in loves with George, Yvonne's husband; George and Yvonne; and a young woman named Madeleine, whom Michael...
Such enlightened over-acting is, of course, quite difficult, and in general the cast does very well at it. Particularly convincing are Marion Spencer as the neurotic mother and Russell Enoch as her son. The latter looks very much like F. Scott Fitzgerald and plays the prep-school-boy-in...
In Zen Buddhism they have a saying: 'Show your natural face.' I think I have shown my natural face, often to the bewilderment of my time. Yes, I've attained individuation-thank heavens! Otherwise I would be very neurotic, you know."
The Rubinsteins drifted around Europe, from Stockholm to Paris to Vienna. On his 15th birthday Serge decided he had an inferiority complex, asked his parents for an appointment with Dr. Alfred Adler, the famed Viennese psychologist, for a birthday present. Since Adler was a responsible physician, the story that Rubinstein...