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Jean Stafford (The Mountain Lion, Children Are Bored on Sunday) has a reputation for writing impressively about all sorts of unpleasant human woes and misfortunes-accidents, operations, psychic fear in children. But this is by far her most thoroughly unpleasant book-perhaps the most abrasively unpleasant book in recent years-and it required no writing talent...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Middle age, joyless loves and his own irredeemable mediocrity have given John Osborne's anti-hero a screaming case of psychic jitters. Yet the play is armed with irascible wit, and Nicol Williamson's whiplash acting raises laughs as well as welts...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Middle age, joyless loves, and his own irredeemable mediocrity have given John Osborne's anti-hero a screaming case of psychic jitters. Yet the play is armed with irascible wit, and Nicol Williamson's whiplash acting raises laughs as well as welts...
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Director Federico Fellini (8½) stages a psychic three-ring circus in the mind of a troubled matron, played by Giulietta Masina...
...irrational jealousy and a megalomaniac conviction that homosexual trends are universal. Though Bergler conceded that homosexuals are not responsible for their inner conflicts, he found that these conflicts "sap so much of their inner energy that the shell is a mixture of superciliousness, fake aggression and whimpering. Like all psychic masochists, they are subservient when confronted by a stronger person, merciless when in power, unscrupulous about trampling on a weaker person...