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Reconsidering Freud

In Lovesick, a 1983 film by Marshall Brickman about a Freudian analyst who comes to regard his work as useless, Dudley Moore falls in love and, in the modest give-and-take struggles of real life, quits his profession and confronts its "committee" of self-serving priestly elders. Sigmund Freud, played by Alec Guinness, is exonerated of any wrongdoing; his shade shows up at intervals to approve of the apostate's new life and to state that psychoanalysis was intended only as an "experiment," never as an "industry." At the time, few suspected that a deadly serious debunking of psychoanalysis had begun, and that...