The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.
The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.
Freud was just a novelist.
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.