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Sigmund Freud once complained that many biographers idealize their subjects and thus "forgo the opportunity of penetrating into the most fascinating secrets of human nature." His own biographer need have no guilt feelings on this score. British Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, the only loyal survivor of Freud's original disciples, reveres the Master of Psychoanalysis ; yet he is able to probe for many of the most fascinating secrets of Freud's nature. The first volume of Jones's projected three-volume biography (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) took the subject through his youth-including such matters as breast-feeding...
...Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Vol II 1901-19 (512 pp.); Basic Books; $6.75. Freud's term for bowels. Oliver, now a Philadelphia engineer; Ernst, an architect, Martin, a sometime lawyer, Anna, a psychoanalyst, and Mathilde, a housewife, all living in London; Sophie died in Germany after World...
...Psychoanalyst's Nightmare is fun with Freud. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Romeo are psychoanalyzed by Dr. Bombasticus, end up as respectable Rotarians deeply ashamed of their "adolescent" behavior in Shakespeare's plays. "[The doctor] showed me," says Romeo, "that my real motivation was rebellion against the father . . . enabled me to become a staid and worthy upholder of the honor of the Montagues." Says Hamlet: "Dr. Bombasticus persuaded me that I was very young and had no understanding of statecraft. I apologized to my mother for any rude things I might have said." Moral: An ounce...
...Ryther only after he and his parents reluctantly decided that the center was better than a state institution.) The boy began a series of weekly consultations with William Gleason, a social worker and former (1938) halfback for the University of Washington, who regularly consulted with Dr. Edith Buxbaum, a psychoanalyst attached to the center. At first the interviews were unproductive; Jim missed many, or showed up hostile and taciturn for others. But the counselors steadily broke down his resistance over a six-month period by treating him as an adult and convincing him that they would not violate his confidences...
Champagne Complex (by Leslie Stevens) concerns a young girl (Polly Bergen) who, after becoming engaged to a prim young tycoon (John Dall), constantly gets high on champagne and then begins peeling off her clothes. Her worried beau calls in his psychoanalyst bachelor uncle (Donald Cook). Treatments reveal that the girl wants the analyst himself as Cupid to her psyche. Since, in romantic comedies of the '50s, young girls may marry men in their 40s, all is well. Champagne Complex is that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments...