Word: psychoanalysts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EURJ Psychoanalyst Theodor Reik told a Manhattan audience that both sexes are ruled by fears, but different fears. "A man is always trying to prove to himself that he is enough of a man. Every man doubts that he's really masculine. But a woman is afraid of being only a woman and not a person. She fears she hasn't enough to offer. She's afraid men will find out her faults...
Faithfully Yours (by L. Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Richard W. Krakeur) is one of those bits of fluff that are also fiends of dullness. It concerns a psychoanalyst who persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
Pygmalion-Shaw continued to hack away at his Galatea until Ava had what amounted to a nervous breakdown, went to a psychoanalyst. When Shaw finally decided that Ava was not a promising pupil, Ava acknowledged the breakup with the classically laconic comment: "He told me to leave, so I left...
...herself, bursting into prissy tantrums only when Max's doglike devotion takes a forthright husbandly turn: "No, please don't. If it's not. . . mental mauling and messing about, it has to be the other kind." At a point where friends might have recommended a good psychoanalyst, Max packs the family off for a long holiday in Florence...
...psychoanalyst would probably point out that their "faith" may be resting upon a perverse, egoistical ardor for a form of self-perfectionism among the ranks of Jehovah's Witnesses...