Hell hath no fury like an intellectual spurned."
-Billy Shakespeare, very liberally paraphrased
Let's just agree it's all Thomas Jefferson's fault. The writer of the Declaration of Independence inscribed "the pursuit of happiness" into the very DNA of America by asserting that such a right was every bit as inalienable as those of life and liberty The Happiness Scam
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: How Czech-born Freud influenced Hollywood
In the 1930s the largely Jewish community of psychoanalysts in Vienna was forced to emigrate.
Many went to America and soon Sigmund Freud’s ideas began to infuse Hollywood films: you would have been hard-pressed to find a leading director, producer, scriptwriter or actor who had not been psychoanalysed. The spellbinding Spellbound was the most explicitly pschyoanalytical of Hitchcock’s films, using the ingenious device of the analyst as detective. An analyst, played by Ingrid Bergman, solves a crime by unblocking the repressed memory of Gregory Peck, falling in love with him in the process... Hitchcock was knowingly using Freud
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