"THE THREE FACES OF EVE"
"SHOCK CORRIDOR"
Session 28 December 1994
Q: (L) Well, when one is dealing with psychology, what would be the best approach... what is the true aspect of the self or the being that one should inquire into in order to heal?
A: Subconscious mind.
Q: (V) Is the statement that psychology studies emotions, is that a fair statement?
A: No. Subconscious is same in body or out.
Q: (V) The subconscious is part of the soul?
A: One and same.
Q: (V) Is the higher self the same as the soul and the subconscious?
A: Yes.
Q: (V) Please define true psychology for me?
A: Half.
Q: (L) What do you mean by half? What is the half?
A: Half spirituality.
Q: (V) Do you think that the spiritual part put together with the subconscious part is a good way to approach psychology as I have been planning?
A: Be careful of "influences," you are easily influenced.
Q: (V) Is this directed at me and my idea of spiritual psychology?
A: Yes. And no.
Q: (V) What influences?
A: Any.
Q: (V) That is kind of open, isn't it? (L) Well, you never answered the question about "true" psychology. You only said "Half." What is true psychology? Is it the investigation of the subconscious mind?
A: True psychology only half.
Q: (L) And what is true psychology, a definition? Was it as I said, an investigation of the subconscious mind?
A: Physiologically directed study of mind.
Q: (L) The effects on the mind of the physiology, the hormones, blood sugar levels and so forth, input and output of the various organs and how that can affect the thought processes, is that correct?
A: Close.
Q: (L) And that is half of it. What else?
A: Spirit is missing half.
Q: (L) And what would the person who is working on the spiritual half of it focus their energies on? Would it be techniques of meditation, understanding the nature of the universe, would it have to do with physics, what area?
A: Apples and oranges.
Q: (L) All of those things are apples and oranges compared to the spiritual application of psychology that you intend?
A: No. Spirit has nothing to do with psychology as you know it.
Q: (L) But, in this theoretical psychology that you are telling us about, how would you fit the spiritual aspect into it?
A: Totally restructure theory.
Q: (L) Okay, and how would you present this totally restructured theory?
A: Much too complex.
Q: (L) In the discussion of psychology that we have had here, obviously you think that there is something about the way you have discussed it that V__ has missed or would miss because of influences from other sources, is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) In terms of these sources that influence her, by what means of her system, her organic or spiritual system, do these influences tap into her being?
A: Visual and auditory.
Q: (L) Okay, so she sees things and hears things that influence her, is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And where does she usually see or hear these things?
A: Scholastic.
Q: (L) So, these are scholastic things that you are talking about. She hears and sees things at school that influence her, that you say these influences are not going to be helpful in what she is ultimately trying to achieve, is that correct?
A: Bingo!
"THE THREE FACES OF EVE" (1957) U.S.A Dir. Nunnaly Johnson.
When Alistair Cooke shows up to introduce Three Faces of Eve, we know that the fact-based story will bear more than a little fidelity to truth. Joanne Woodward won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eve, a young Georgia housewife suffering from multiple personalities. Eve's husband (David Wayne), confused by his wife's aberrant behavior when assuming her two "other selves," seeks out help from a psychiatrist (Lee J. Cobb). Carefully probing Eve's subconscious via hypnosis, the doctor finds out that, though each of Eve's personalities is aware of the other's existence, none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her negative selves and is totally cured. Ironically, Joanne Woodward would herself play a psychologist confronted with a multiple-personality case in the Emmy-winning 1976 TV movie Sybil. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviE FACES OF EVA" (1957) U.S.A Dir. Nunnaly Johnson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6AQAnd6YqY&feature=related
"SHOCK CORRIDOR" (1963) U.S.A Dir. Samuel Fuller.
Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. Peter Breck plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. To glean first-hand information, Breck pretends to go insane and is locked up in the institution. While pursuing his investigation, Breck is sidetracked by the loopy behavior of his fellow inmates. During a hospital riot, Breck is straightjacketed and subjected to shock treatment. By now almost as crazy as he's previously pretended to be, Breck begins imagining that his exotic-dancer girlfriend Constance Towers (a Samuel Fuller "regular") is actually his sister! Typical of the Fuller ouevre, the characters in Shock Corridor are either saved or destroyed by their individual obsessions. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQyANxtiow0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRzSnXGzNGU&feature=related
I love this movie also because it is a night movie, and I love nights. It is very difficult to film during night, so I think this movie is very well done, very good.
