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Rethinking
Freud
Interest in the guru of psychoanalysis
rises generations after his death.
Y4-
Alice Burdick Schweiger
Special to the Jewish News
t may be 72 years since Sigmund Freud's death, but
the "father of psychoanalysis" still fascinates popular
culture.
This fall alone, Metro Detroiters are being reintro-
duced to Freud — the
man who popularized
such concepts as the
unconscious, defense
mechanisms, transfer-
ence, Freudian slips
and dream symbolism
— through a new play,
a new movie and sev-
eral new books.
Freud's Last Session,
about an imagined
meeting between
Freud and author
C.S. Lewis, is playing
at Detroit's Century
Theatre through
Oct. 30. A Dangerous
Sigmund Freud: "Being entirely
Method, a look at how honest with oneself is a good
the intense relation-
exercise." (From a letter to his
ship between Freud
friend Wilhelm Fliess, Oct. 15,
and fellow psychiatrist
1897)
Carl Jung gave birth to
psychoanalysis, premiered at the Toronto International
Film Festival before opening wide later this year. Authors
Howard Markel (Anatomy of Addiction) and Joseph
Skibell (A Curable Romantic), both with books with
Freud at their center, appear at this year's Jewish Book
Fair.
Mark St. Germain, author and playwright of Freud's
Last Session, which has played more than 500 perfor-
mances Off Broadway and recently moved to a larger
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