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"...in the last few days, Chaplin has been in Vienna...but it was too
cold for him here, and he left again quickly. He is undoubtedly a great
artist; certainly he always portrays one and the same figure; only the
weakly poor, helpless, clumsy youngster for whom, however, things turn
out well in the end. Now do you think for this role he has to forget
about his own ego? On the contrary, he always plays only himself as he
was in his dismal youth. He cannot get away from those impressions and
humiliations of that past period of his life. He is, so to speak, an
exceptionally simple and transparent case. The idea that the
achievements of artists are intimately bound up with their childhood
memories, impressions, repressions and disappointments, has already
brought in much enlightenment and has, for that reason, become very
precious to us."
--Sigmund Freud to Yvette Guilbert
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Anyone interested in a psychoanalytic study of Charlie Chaplin based (in part)
on Freud's remarks can retrieve it by going to:
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/soc/heroines.html
or by contacting me at:
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