Word: psychoanalysts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...describes the nightmares of such varied and notable personalities as the Queen of Sheba, the Shakespearean expurgator Bowdler, Stalin, Dean Acheson, a modern psychoanalyst, a metaphysician, and an existentialist. Bowdler, or example, dreams that his wife reads a copy of the original Shakespeare, goes mad out of remorse for her dread deed, and is carried off to the asylum, shouting Shakespearean obscenities to the neighbors as the departs...
...best tale is the description of a modern psychoanalyst's nightmare, which Russell subtitles "Adjustment--a Fugue." An unhappy analyst dreams--in a night of misgiving--that Shakespeare character, Macbeth, Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and several others, are turned into happy, well adjusted, normal--and frightfully dull-human beings...
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...