Feminism and Its Discontents

Buhle, Mari Jo

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“…In the case of The Snake Pit , this took place during the rise and subsequent dominance of antiprogressive and antifeminist trends in politics, popular culture, social science, and psychoanalysis (Buhle, 1998; Chafe, 1995; May, 2009; Storrs, 2013). These were, however, not identical to reactionary and antifeminist ideas of earlier periods for many reasons.…”

Section: Marx and Freud In Hollywood Circa 1948mentioning

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“…It also reflected the Freudian consensus within American psychiatry, and Freudian themes in literature and theater of the 1930s and 1940s (e.g., Brand, 1937; Laurents, 1946). That consensus was, admittedly, not free from paternalism and deafness to women’s voices (Buhle, 1998). Carl Binger, for example, was a prominent psychiatrist who consulted with the screenwriters of The Snake Pit and whose views of women appear to have been intensely misogynistic.…”

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“…In 1947 he directed The Long Night, an adaptation of a classic film of the French Popular Front(Buhle & Wagner, 2002).4 This may have helped him see psychoanalysis as a legitimate form of treatment rather than a plot device to show women's flaws-the latter exemplified by the film Lady in the Dark(Buhle, 1998).…”

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“…4This may have helped him see psychoanalysis as a legitimate form of treatment rather than a plot device to show women’s flaws—the latter exemplified by the film Lady in the Dark (Buhle, 1998). …”

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The Snake Pit: Mixing Marx with Freud in Hollywood.

Harris¹

2021

History of Psychology

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In 1948, the motion picture The Snake Pit was released to popular and critical acclaim. Directed by Anatole Litvak, the film told of the mental illness and recovery of one patient, who survived overcrowding and understaffing and was treated by a neo-Freudian psychiatrist known as Dr. Kik. It was based on a novel of the same title by Mary Jane Ward, who had been treated at Rockland State Hospital in New York. Building upon exposés of horrid hospital conditions in the press, The Snake Pit helped motivate reforms in the treatment of the mentally ill. Via unpublished correspondence and drafts of the film's screenplay, this article explores the populist and antifascist themes in The Snake Pit, which came from the director, screenwriters, and the politics of the immediate post-WWII era. It also describes the case history of Mary Jane Ward and her treatment by Gerard Chrzanowski, the real "Dr.

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