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What is >The Wild Duck< >about<? What is the relationship between text and subtext in a work whose usually understood message >against idealism< appears to contradict the conclusion no less usually drawn from A Doll's House? Thomas Bredsdorff here analyzes the approaches of two major modern directors of the play – Ingmar Bergman, in his Stockholm production of 1972, and Luca Ronconi, who directed it five years later in Rome – and suggests the ‘hidden dialogue’ at work in such a comparison. He also explores the issues of patricide and power which may be deduced by applying the insights of Erich Fromm concerning the nature of human aggression, basing his own conclusions on a careful examination of Ibsen's highly pertinent stage directions. Thomas Bredsdorff has been Professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Copenhagen since 1978, and theatre critic of Politiken since 1965. This essay is translated from his most recent book, Magtspil (Power Play), published in Copenhagen by Gyldendal in 1986.
A discussion of the potentially curative influence of religion on mental health. The contributions relating to religion of Emile Durkheim, Elias Canetti, and Carl Gustav Jung are analyzed, focusing on their arguments about the curative effects of religion and of religious ceremonies on people's psychological crises. Also analyzed are the theories of Sigmund Freud and Erich FROMM as to how religion can create optimistic feelings in individuals with respect to their socially constructed needs of redemption, release from guilt, and unconscious negation of injustice.
Translation of Meaning
(1988)
Von der Kunst des Liebens
(1988)
Vorstoß ins Unbewußte
(1988)
Was ist Liebe...?
(1988)
Why Read Hegel?
(1988)
Why We Forget Our Dreams
(1988)
Wider die Verschulung
(1988)
Work Role and Private Self
(1988)