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...close as he'll get to playing the real thing. Welles, as a millionaire striving for omnipotence must not only defend the world he has built up around himself from a psychotic son, but support a droopy, chche-ridden script derived in about equal parts from Ellery Queen and Sigmund Freud Queen's novel provides the story, and the message is Chabrol's interpretation of the gospel according to St. Sigmund...
Ernest Jones, official biographer of Sigmund Freud, seemed to agree with those sentiments when he wrote in 1930: "Chess...is a play substitute for the art of war." But in the same essay, The Problem of Paul Morphy, which discussed the paranoia that beset the American chess prodigy of the 1850s, he also moved Freud's much-debated interpretation of Oedipus onto the chessboard. Morphy, in Jones' somewhat questionable theory, had to sublimate a strong Oedipal urge to "kill the father." His own flesh-and-blood father was already dead, but Morphy had a surrogate father, Howard Staunton...
...Sept. 21, 1939. Taking the hand of the physician at his bedside, Sigmund Freud said, "My dear Schur, you certainly remember our first talk. You promised me then not to forsake me when my time comes. Now it is nothing but torture and makes no sense any more." Schur reassured his patient that he had not forgotten. "When he was again in agony, I gave him a hypodermic of two centigrams of morphine. He soon felt relief and fell into a peaceful sleep. I repeated this dose after about twelve hours. He lapsed into a coma and did not wake...
...baroque chair listened gravely to the speeches. The honorary doctorate, said Professor Hans Strotzka, "is a symbolic act which marks a formal end to the exclusion of psychoanalysis from Vienna University." Dr. Anna Freud, 76, was being honored at last in the city from which her pioneering father, Dr. Sigmund Freud, fled 34 years ago. Other speakers insisted that the tribute was hers alone, for her work in child psychoanalysis. Anna Freud felt otherwise. "Academic honors are not usually hereditary," she said in the dry, careful diction she uses with her youthful patients, "but I feel that herewith I inherit...
Interest in the Mafia knows no social or intellectual boundary. The Harvard Business Review has included an instructional primer entitled "How lock out the Mafia." A recent issue of Commentary carried a lengthy article entitled "Browsing in Gangland" by Joseph Epstein, who invoked such disparate sources as Sigmund Freud and Al Capone to prove that "we are all hooked on crime, because in our innermost beings most of us partly wish to be gangsters ourselves...