Word: oedipuses
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...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...
...More Zealous Psychologists." "And More Blah-Blah." In this book Dr. Kanner said: "There is no raid shelter from the verbal bombs that rain on contemporary parents. At every turn they run up against weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them no end: Oedipus complex, inferiority complex, maternal rejection, sibling rivalry, conditioned reflex, schizoid personality, repression, regression, aggression, blah-blah, blah-blah and more blah-blah." By contrast, Dr. Kanner exhorted: "Let us, contemporary mothers, together regain that common sense which is yours, which has been yours before you allowed yourselves to be intimidated...