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Is homosexuality curable? Freud thought not. In the main, he felt that analysis could only bring the deviant patient relief from his neurotic conflicts by giving him "harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed." Many of Freud's successors are more optimistic...
The most telling argument for the Wolfenden rule is that the present statutes are unenforceable anyway as long as the homosexual acts are performed in private (many of the laws also prohibit the same acts between man and wife). In effect, the arrests that are now made are for public...
The girl leader of the gang, played with edgy, neurotic menace by Broadway Newcomer Karen Black, has a "ather fixation and consequently a poisonous hostility toward her new stepmother. The girl eggs the gang into kidnaping her ten-year-old stepsister, and it is made to seem as if the...
The Advocate has quite a bit to be neurotic about. The November number is scrawny and bleak. It has twenty-eight straight pages of existential lamentations, with ads for variety. No doubt, as the Advocate claims, "the best 'young' writing being done in the community will stand comparison with the...
But the interplay of a neurotic count's daughter and her sadistic butler lover baring their psyches for two hours is about as static as an opera can get without freezing right in its tracks. To give it life and thrust, music of explosive lyric power and sweep was...