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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curtain Call. Neurologist Brain refused to try to adjudicate between physical and psychological explanations of mental states. But he could not resist a dig at the extreme Freudians: "You will recall the moving end of Peer Gynt, where Peer finds Solveig . . . and realizes that she is both wife and mother . . . If, as the curtain falls, a psychoanalyst in the seat behind you whispers: 'Oedipus complex!', do you understand the play better or enjoy it more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain & Mind | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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