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...Orton, What the Butler Saw describes the antics of a marginally professional psychiatrist, Dr. Prentice (Michael Mayo), who gets caught trying to seduce a prospective secretary, Geraldine Barclay (Daniela Raz). The ensuing squabbles with his wife (Sarah Sidman) and mis-timed efforts to hide his adultery draw the promiscuous psychoanalyst into a frustrating cycle of cross-dressing and duplicity...
...herself the most formidable Prime Minister India has ever had, masterly melding the charisma of her family with the subcontinent's rich religious images of motherhood and successfully passing her office to her son Rajiv. Six years after her assassination, she is still idolized. Says Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst: "She is looked upon as the sacrificing mother of the joint family." Born to privilege, Gandhi believed she was born to rule as well. She once quoted Robert Frost to Rajiv: "How hard it is to keep from being king, when it's in you and in the situation...
That's the point. And it does not have to come at women's expense. "It is stupid to conclude that the empowerment of women means the disempowerment of men," says Robert Moore, a psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Chicago. "Men must also feel good about being male." Men would do well, in fact, to invite women into their lives to participate in these changes. It's no fun to face them alone. But if women can't or won't, men must act on their own and damn the torpedoes. No pain, no gain...
Sudhir Kakar, a psychoanalyst and author of the recently published Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality, suggests that rape in movies is rooted in the Indian male's strong bond with his mother in childhood. Rape, Kakar argues, is a way of momentarily subjugating the all-powerful, suffocating mother figure; hence the male delight at seeing a woman in distress...
...years White sought a cure through analysis. "But in my fourth and final go at therapy (this time, at last, with a gay psychoanalyst), I'd finally come to some sort of terms with my homosexuality," White writes in States of Desire. By the time he graduated from the University of Michigan in 1962, he had accepted -- indeed become fully committed to -- a homosexual life and life-style. He moved to Manhattan's Greenwich Village, working by day, writing by night, and coming to the realization that his art would suffer unless his culture were reflected in his writing...