Figure 1.--This is a flash back drem sequence with Frau Freud played by Rosalie Crutchley and a young Sigmund. The boy playing te young Sigmund was uncredited. |
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This hautingly dark pseudo-biographical movie deals with 5 years (1885-90) in the life of famed Vienese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) who is played by (Montgomery Clift) . It depicts the turning point in his career. His colleagues reject his approach to curing hysteric patients. Many believe that hysterical patiens were acting out to gain attention. Freud uses hypnosis to find to deave into the origins of psychosis. The film focuses on one of his patients--Cecily Koertner (Susannah York). The film aflicts this young woman with every imaginable neurotic symtom. She refuses to drink water and is plagued repeatedly by the same nightmare. She is sexually repressed, hysterical, and fixated on her father, becoming a kind of composite patient, And so Freud goes to work, developing one hypothesis after another. The film compresses Freud's forative years into a short period for dramatic tension. We also see Freud's home life with his wife Martha (Susan Kohner). There are also flashbacks with Freud as a boy and his parents.
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