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...that he can have her all to himself. The Freudian prescription: reduce the pressure from the unconscious by getting the patient to remember and understand what he was repressing. From the Christian viewpoint man's misery and evil are the result of Original Sin. The prescription: faith in Jesus Christ as Redeemer. The cures are obviously the same thing, says Sanders, "with Christ in the role of the Great Psychiatrist...
...glorify their plight; they are, he says, mere self-deceivers. Actually Edward, who can love nobody, and Lavinia, whom nobody can love, share a common bond of isolation, and will be far happier together than apart. Celia Coplestone comes to the specialist, too, but with a sense of sin and a capacity for humility and atonement: for her, salvation, no matter how arduous, will be necessary. The play ends two years later with another cocktail party, showing the Chamberlaynes adjusted and telling of Celia's death by crucifixion while working among heathen savages...
...Titoism" has spread to Japan. The Cominform Journal last week pronounced anathema on sleepy-eyed Sanzo Nozaka, long considered Japan's No. 1 Red. His sin: he had "uttered bourgeois platitudes," i.e., he had contradicted the customary Communist charge that the U.S. is being imperialistic in Japan, had insisted that the Communist Party could establish a "people's democratic regime" under the U.S. occupation...
Pleasant Devil. When the devil, in the guise of a pleasant-mannered guide named Ransome, offers him "freedom from guilt, freedom from sin," Wallis refuses. He has come to realize that only by remembering "every little petty lie, every deceit, every shame, from the first to the last," can he expel his torment of guilt and find...
...Vintage, for all its superficially dramatic grappling with the problem of sin, merely points up man's well-known moral fallibility. It leaves untouched the problem of expiation of sin by those whose conduct, however understandable, is morally and socially damnable. And its major thesis, that man, to win salvation, must boldly examine his acts and probe his subconscious for their meaning, is hardly more than a fictional plug for the value of psychoanalysis...