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...place as a writer and as a man whose father happened to be one of the most radical and controversial figures in the history of psychiatry and medicine. More than 15 years after his death, Wilhelm Reich remains the subject of wide interest and bitter debate. Was he a quack, a mad scientist or a prophetic genius? Or was he all three and thus more intensely human than most...
...culture-figure new tricks, but what Altman takes from Chandler doesn't fulfill his new needs. Chandler's Long Goodbye focused on all the obstacles put between Marlowe and the truth about a friend's suspected murder (and later suicide)--the political interests of important businessmen, the links between quack doctors and paid-off police, and the duplicities of crooked accomplices to his friend's "crimes." Altman doesn't want to concentrate on the intelligence and shrewd stratagems which Marlowe uses to overcome denizens of the closed frontier; he doesn't give us in his film any alternative to lifestyles...
Freud has always irritated Nabokov, offended his deep sense of psychological subtlety. Here his satire of "the Viennese quack" and his "Sigmundian school" is refined into a brief parody of dream research. Of "some two hundred healthy jailbirds" investigated, "one hundred seventy-eight of the men were seen to have powerful erections during the stage of sleep called HAREM ("Has A Rapid Eye Movement") marked by visions and causing a lustful opthalmic roll, a kind of internal ogling...
...placed in his teeth and a receiver in his ear-everything indeed but a Captain Midnight magic decoder. Luckily enough, the bad guys never seem to notice when the agent starts chattering to himself or cocks his head to listen to Control Director Burgess Meredith, who still seems to quack the way he did when he played the Penguin on the old Batman series...
...longer fly and Bellerophon has become a professor of literature. Barth's heroes have unheroic self-doubts, think dirty thoughts, study poli sci and get high on hippomenes. Zeus, in the form of a high school drop-out, rapes unsuspecting women and Bellerophon is dismissed by all as another quack would-be hero. Heroic love is forever lost in the sexual profusion and confusion of these post-Freudian ancient Greeks...