"...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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