Word: oedipuses
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Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with a talk by Lenny on musical works based on literary classics...
...Olivier's understudy there, he went into Coriolanus when Sir Laurence went out with a slipped knee cartilage, carried off the part with a brilliant blend of boisterousness and truculence. Since then, he has been a wild Teddy Boy in The Lily White Boys, a suitably complex Oedipus in a BBC production of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, and a robust and lyric Romeo in a Caedmon recording of Romeo and Juliet (with Claire Bloom), scheduled for U.S. release soon. But throughout Britain he is best known as Arthur Seaton, hero of the film version of Novelist...
...state's ends? So Schirmbeck's characters inquire, talking essays to each other the way Aldous Huxley's people used to, and enthusiastically fogging the main issues with wildly sprayed brilliance on such matters as the esthetics of the ballet and the narrator's Oedipus entanglements...
...reviewer from the New York Herald Tribune babbled gleefully that the group had "sung things calculated to cause a fellow to run his eyes, hold down his head sidewise and kick to get something out of his ears." They sang with Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals and performed Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at the Metropolitan Opera...
...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...