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...what musicals might be, blending innovation and old-fashioned storytelling into an elixir of delight. It makes audiences think of Freud and Jung, of dark psychological thickets and sudden clearings of enlightenment, even as they roar with laughter. Its basic insight, plainly influenced by the revisionist scholarship of Bruno Bettelheim, is that at heart, most fairy tales are about the loving yet embattled relationship between parents and children. Almost everything that goes wrong -- which is to say, almost everything that can -- arises from a failure of parental or filial duty, despite the best intentions...
...prime of my life," or "Kids lose everything unless there's someone to look after them." Does any twelve-year-old talk with such analysand self-awareness? The boys may be just scruffy outsiders in the small-town '50s, but they sound like a Classics Illustrated version of Bruno Bettelheim...
Szasz met the venerable Freudian Bruno Bettelheim, 82, for the first time, patted him on the back and called him "one of the few people at this | conference that I respect," thus indicating how far therapeutic ecumenism has to go. Among the other visiting stars who had never met were Human-Potential Guru Carl Rogers and Joseph Wolpe, one of the founders of behavior therapy. Wolpe found the talk about therapeutic unity resistible. Zeig, in his opening address, referred to "the great ballet of differences" in the field, but Wolpe called it a "babble of conflicting voices." Wolpe complained about...
Writers as famous as Dante have recounted similar stories, as Bruno Bettelheim points out in his preface to the novel. But Cardinal seems to care more about recounting her experience honestly than about casting it in polished prose. She writes in the tradition of popular fiction, and as concerned as she is with escaping middle class convention the falls into cliches and literary devices more often found in drugstores than bookstores. Overwriting and the over-repetition of rhetorical questions and exclamations at particularly important moments inevitably makes these scenes less effective. Ironically, exaggerated descriptions only serve as a reminder that...
Some see The Words to Say It as a novel about the experience of psychoanalysis. Analyst Bruno Bettelheim writes, "in my opinion The Words to Say It is the best account of psychoanalysis as it is seen and experienced by the patient." But Cardinal contends that her message is a more general one. "I never intended to write a book about psychoanalysis. I wanted to write about imperialism and colonialism. I wanted to write about the life of two women, a mother and a daughter. Since I had been analyzed, I decided to use psychoanalysis as a literary vehicle between...