Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...therefore, not surprising that the Oedipus complex explains Freud better than it does Oedipus. Psychoanalysis is a kind of battle map of the psyche in which Id, Superego and Ego are engaged in an endless civil war. That war was Sigmund Freud. He himself said, "I stand for an infinitely freer sexual life, although I myself have made very little use of such freedom." He wanted to be a lawgiver, but he became a mythmaker. He wanted to be a scientist, but he was more nearly an artist-a type that he described as "a being of a special kind...
...Oedipus. The silhouette of Max that emerges is "incomparable" (as Shaw lastingly dubbed him), partly because the 20th century was not comparable to Max. Temperamentally, Sir Max (as he came to be in 1939) was an aristocrat; sartorially, he was a dandy; intellectually, he was a conservative. Even less appealing to an age of total inflation was Max's insistence on "limits," especially his own: "My gifts are small. I've used them very well and discreetly, never straining them; and the result is that I've made a charming little reputation." Bigness, grandiose gestures, Utopian schemes...
...Writer Charles Kaufman, Huston and Reinhardt proceeded, meeting earlier this year in Huston's castle in Ireland. Although their approach from the beginning has been as serious as a neurosurgical autopsy-"I was not a Freudian when we started this," says Reinhardt, "but after a time, when the Oedipus complex was mentioned all joking ceased"-the three men's discussions frequently embarrassed and sometimes outraged Huston's pious Irish Catholic servants...
...until Mrs. Breuer finds out about it. Freud takes over, solves the dilemma and resolves the case.* This leads him into the marathon of self-probing-mainly into the causes of his antagonism toward his father and his deep love for his mother-that he eventually generalized as the Oedipus complex...
...living room rather than the newspaper. Now a father talking to his daughter before her first date, he tells her that a car is a motel room on wheels; now Dr. Sprocket, child psychologist, he tells a patient's mother: "I know your little boy. His name is Oedipus." (While Sahl's four published recordings have sold only 125,000 copies, the closer-to-the-fingertips comedy of Shelley Berman has sold nearly 1,000,000 copies in three releases, a surprising figure for a "talking" record...