"...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 ********************************************** 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: <[log in to unmask]> ************************************************ Steve Weissman home page<http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/soc/chaphome.html> ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]