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...British wine merchant, Martin Lynch-Gibbon, comes home from his mistress, Georgie, one late afternoon to be told by his wife that she wants a divorce. Antonia knows nothing of Georgie, but she has fallen in love with her American psychoanalyst, Palmer Anderson. Far from abandoning Martin, Antonia and Palmer demand his love, and they are quite shattered to learn of his mistress. One of the more richly comic scenes in the play is that of Martin apologizing to Antonia and Palmer for Georgie...
Died. Dr. Franz Gabriel Alexander, 73, Hungarian-born Freudian psychoanalyst who emigrated to the U.S. in 1930, became the prime founder of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1932, helped pioneer psychosomatic medicine by linking a variety of physical ailments to longstanding emotional or personality disorders; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...contrast, the U.S. is forever trying to banish sin from the universe-and finding new sins to worry about. The new sex freedom in the U.S. does not necessarily set people free. Psychoanalyst Rollo May believes that it has minimized external social anxiety but increased internal tension. The great new sin today is no longer giving in to desire, he thinks, but not giving in to it fully or successfully enough. While enjoyment of sex has increased for many, the "competitive compulsion to prove oneself an acceptable sexual machine" makes many others feel neurotically guilty, hence impotent or frigid...
...influence" is a little paranoic. A student's mind is not made of wax; it actively responds and takes and rejects according to need. If there are submerged contents, it is best if they come to the surface. A good teacher does not avoid transference; but, unlike an orthodox psychoanalyst, he at once tries to dissolve it, by noticing it, by the play of reason, by turning it into actual liking or hostility. How else does he think a young person "matures"? One does not "wait for" maturity. Along the same lines, when he speaks of (sexual) "seduction...
Troublesome Names. But mental illness still defies a simple, pat definition, which is one reason why its various forms have been given so many different labels. To Dr. Menninger, a psychoanalyst, the trouble is that even his fellow professionals seem to see magic in a name: "Giving a name to something implies acquaintanceship with it. . . a degree of mastery over it." In psychiatry, a collection of thousands of names has not come close to conferring mastery...