Word: psychoanalysts
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...commonsense theme which he used to considerable success in his first work, The Road to Rome. Laid in Alt Wien, this play has to do with the ex-mistress (Lynn Fontanne) of a gaudy, deposed Habsburg (Alfred Lunt, her husband). After the revolution Actress Fontanne had married an eminent psychoanalyst, tried to forget her royal lover. On the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef's birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes place at Frau Lucher's hotel, where once nothing was too good for them. Habsburg and ex-mistress attend. In Frau Lucher many a spectator...
...troubles. Success inevitably went to his head and he further bamboozled himself by drinking. Susan was always technically faithful but Tim gave her many a cause for anxious jealousy. Once she gave a wedding anniversary party in London; Tim got drunk and disgraced her. Once he brought a psychoanalyst into her room while she was dressing, wanted the three of them to have a conference on their marital troubles. When she could stand it no longer Susan went to Reno...
...father of one sends them to an abandoned mine in Nevada, where silver is unexpectedly discovered. Most of them then get married and return to the fold of what Messrs. Hammerstein & Schwab would have you know as Good Old Capitalism. One excursion into the office of a psychoanalyst provides merriment...
Harold's teacher was unusually sensible. She realized that when he was on one of his wanton sprees he was "beside himself," beyond his own volition. Harold said that his head always "hurt" him. She took the boy to a psychoanalyst, who confessed that he could work no cure...
Although he is now 74, he still works assiduously. This year he published Civilization and Its Discontents,- a psychoanalyst's survey of modern civilization. We suffer, today, from a cultural super ego, he states. This super ego is a kind of acute group conscience which prohibits and censors the individual, emphasizes standards to be lived up to rather than happiness which is the natural goal of men. As an individual becomes neurotic under these conditions, so the whole of humanity may develop a neurosis. The super ego is a manifestation of aggressiveness, one of the two great antagonistic forces...