Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything. He was born a Russian Jew; his family fled from the pogroms, and his respectable father, a dentist, committed suicide when he learned of Stavisky's first arrest some years before the action of the film takes place. Despite his own doctor's diagnosis of megalomania and schizophrenia, Belmondo's Stavisky is relatively attractive, down to the last minutes when he is trapped like an animal in a Swiss chalet, with stubble growing on his chin like a cheap American gangster, a ruined man awaiting the machine guns of his enemies. Above all, Stavisky is a man whose sense...
Kael criticizes A Woman Under the Influence for being "entirely tendentious: it's all planned, yet is isn't thought out." Her initial premise is wrong; Cassavetes is no Laingian disciple. Laing's The Politics of Experience is an ode to schizophrenia. He claims that they aren't really mad; but that society is. The thrust of the movie is not, however, to explore the reaches of madness but to scrutinize the problems of a love relationship. To call Cassavetes a Laingian is to assume that he analyzes what he sees the same way an intellectual does. But the only...
...interval between pulses, or with the pulse altered-or both. Ground-based radars that decipher the new signal are likely to locate their target in the wrong part of the sky. As one electronics expert told Aviation Week, the phony echoes can give a radar "a bad case of schizophrenia...
...published by the paper. Upon reading the review I was immediately struck by the similaritles between these comments and a review by Pauline Kael in the Dec. 9, 1974 issue of the New Yorker. Specifically, Stephen, like Kael, begins his review with a few comments on the theories of schizophrenia expressed by R.D. Laing. Dispersed throughout the article are several particularly unusual phrases used by Kael in her review. One of Stephen's lines reads as follows: "[Gena Rowlands] moves from spasms of manic nervousness to chastened, hurt-animal despair..." Kael's review reads, "Mabel returns, chastened, a fearful hurt...
...Well later on in the book. These are signs that I believe, are clinical symptoms of psychosis or schizophrenia. And what I have done by setting up another person in his head--which is the one that wants to kick Kagle, it's not him--it's almost suggesting the idea of a split personality, although it's not. But he, himself is tending to somewhat because he's saying, "There's somebody inside me who wants to do these things that I'm ashamed of I'm too nice a guy to do this." Then he has to create...