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...cognitive faculties ranging from creativity (e.g. the dreams of August Kekulé, which led to the conception of a simple structure for benzene, and those of Dmitry Mendeleyev that initiated the creation of the periodic table of elements) all the way to emotional healing (e.g. the works of the Freudian doctrine). Recent times have brought about a renewed interest in the effects of sleep on the brain—namely that sleep is crucial for consolidating certain types of memories. My own research has focused on this question, and the findings are ones I wished I’d known...
...weekly card game with a group of ex-cons. Learning that Karen's new boyfriend may be involved in shady dealings, he just says, "Takes all kinds to make a world, sweetheart. The trick is to keep in mind which kind you are." It's not too Freudian to suspect that Karen's thing for charming rogues has a little to do with the man she still calls Daddy...
...rest of us? Well, after The Matrix Reloaded and The Hulk, there's something refreshing about this movie's complete lack of intellectual pretense. No Freudian issues are explored. No reference is made to any philosophical systems, fashionable or not. Angels' director, McG, is one of those pop-culture polymaths, up out of music videos, who can refer to anything, from Dirty Harry to A Star Is Born, with casual aptness. And he knows how to refresh action-movie cliches without undue strain. Give this guy a script to direct instead of a structure to fill in, and he could...
...self-proclaimed Freudian fashion, the brothers have channeled prohibition into lucrative careers...
Kasdan hasn't held back on it in Dreamcatcher, with snakelike aliens created by his friend George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic that have oval, teeth-packed mouths--clearly intended to be a Freudian nightmare--and a completely disgusting scene involving a toilet. "People say the scariest part of a movie is when you don't see something. Bulls___!" Kasdan says, chewing on a Twizzler while reviewing the sound of a door being opened by an alien, for which he requests additional "wet squeegee" noises. "I want to see something when I go to the movies...