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Obvious to amateur Freudians is the fact that Gino had an Oedipus complex, was in love with his mother. He was prudish toward girls, shied away from sex experience. But, contrary to Freud's definition, he did not consider his father a rival-in fact he identified himself with him as the head of the family, and had the same feelings as a jealous husband...
...Such a complex, of course, does not explain the act of murder. Many men, says Dr. Wertham, have matricidal impulses, never translate them into action. Instead they bury the desire in their subconscious, develop compulsion neuroses-a morbid dread of knives, persistent symbolic hand-washing, etc. If he had had a tendency toward ordinary forms of insanity, Gino might have killed himself instead of his mother. Or he might have withdrawn to the world of fantasy, developed schizophrenia...
...fact that such a story could be printed revealed how little the average U.S. citizen understood such a complex procedure. The story was easy to understand; and some isolationists even professed a grudging admiration for British sharpness-making it seem all the truer...
...sensible citizen in any country wants to go to war at any time-which the question dodged. There is a further difference between being willing to go to war "to help Britain" and to save the U.S. from grave danger. Careless questions certainly could not probe the present complex U.S. state of mind...
...Cronin's play, Jupiter Laughed, got laughed off Broadway. Says Cronin: "It was the best thing in the world for me." He felt he had to do a big job "to prove to his critics and himself that he wasn't going soft." He has no messianic complex. Like all Cronin novels, The Keys of the Kingdom was written "to lighten, not to enlighten the world...