Word: freudianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though "The Father" is a modern drama regardless of its age, (it was first produced in 1887), certain elements in the dialogue date it somewhat. One of these is Strindberg's preoccupation with scientific discoveries, particularly new theories in eugenics and pre-Freudian psychology, and he makes his characters use these as motivations for their actions. However, where O'Neill's characters are products of the laboratory and only clinically interesting, Strindberg's are stimulating to both the emotions and the intellect...
...Like the Freudians, the Pavlovians have their own special jargon. In the words of the founder: ". . . All the highest nervous activity . . . consists of a continual change of these three fundamental processes- excitation, inhibition and disinhibition." Everything good is excitatory; everything inhibitory (in the Freudian jargon, repression) is bad-it deprives a man of self-confidence. Says Salter: "The happy person does not waste time thinking. Self-control comes from no control at all ... The inhibitory think, without acting, 'and-delude themselves into believing that they are highly civilized types ... All people whose good manners are noticeable are excessively inhibited...
...effect of this particular bucketful is to give the U.S. butcher-paper weeklies a good dousing. Dennis' fictional magazine is called Forward, its wealthy owner is social-minded Mrs. Gertrude Morgan, and its readers are advanced, intelligent people who have no patience with old notions of simple, pre-Freudian goodness, pre-Marxian prosperity or purely American foreign policy. At pretending to know what they don't know, Forward's editors are impressive, and none is more so than swarthy, neurotic, tweedy Max Divver...
About the most that can be said for these younger writers is that they do not succumb to some of the faults of their literary elders. They do not force the complexities of life into a tight Freudian or Marxian formula, nor mutter Hemingway-hexed monosyllables through the corners of their mouths. And they do not mangle the language as did those who made the error of confusing themselves with James Joyce...
...Raised Voices. In trying to find out why children become mentally ill, psychiatrists often cast a disapproving Freudian eye on parents. Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Trude Tietze studied 25 mothers of schizophrenic patients. The mothers of schizophrenics, she reported in Psychiatry, are apt to be "subtly dominating." They never raise their voices to their children; they control by showing a "hurt" attitude, or by having a timely sick headache or fainting spell. The children thus have no chance for open rebellion...