It is never easy, but such psyche-bending can be a lot easier if there is a natural attraction.
But beyond scrupulous detail about the numbing boredom and the agitating misery of working in such a psyche-warping environment, the play has little to offer by way of drama.
The fictional substance that might have shed more light on Michael's psyche — such as the ostracism of his parents — is never sufficiently explained in a way that would give us a clearer view of the subtle interior development of Michael's psychic reality.
Such a mind does not fluctuate in its center, in the deep region of psyche.
After more than six decades on the throne, the Queen has come to occupy a special role in the national psyche, if such a thing exists.
If, however, some part of the psyche prohibits such overt expression, then, Freud contended, the repressed and censored impulse produces neurotic symptoms, neuroses being conceptualized as the negative of perversions.
I was also impressed by Mr. Maroulis's quietly intense performance as the obsessive Dr. Jekyll, whose quest to unlock the secrets of the divided human psyche have such unfortunate consequences for his mental hygiene, not to mention his hairdo.
This Bukowski is no simple hero of the disenfranchised, and "South of No North" is most involving when it unfurls this rare psyche through such complex moments, when Bukowski keys into his pathetic characters with frightened identification and amused sympathy.
This Bukowski is no simple romantic hero of the disenfranchised, and "South of No North" is most involving when it unfurls this rare psyche through such complex moments, when Bukowski keys into his pathetic characters with frightened identification or amused sympathy.
Victimisation, Oshima believed, was ingrained in the national psyche, and such films as Ozu's taught audiences - through their dignity, still camera, domestic-based plots and meticulous composition (Ozu forced one actress to pick up a cup dozens of times over to get the action just right) - that all struggles against the grain, against the seasons, against the "way things are", were futile.
According to researcher Marcu Beza, the text is, outside of its humorous context, a distant reworking of ancient legends such as Cupid and Psyche.
