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Fries, M.E. (1949). 'Feeling of Hostility'. Psychoanal Q., 18:120-121.

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(1949). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 18:120-121

'Feeling of Hostility'

Margaret E. Fries Author Information

The comments that were made about the film, Feeling of Rejection, apply to this film which, however, seems more complete. The scenes portray realistically overt behavior to a remarkable degree. For instance, the little girl shows oral regression when frustrated not only by eating the cake but by sucking her fingers when confronted with her baby brother; and when the ambivalent wife warns the husband to avoid an accident about which she has read so much, she burns her arm on the toaster.

This title too is unfortunate. The title, Rejection, could as easily have been given to this film as to the other. That personality development is overdetermined is overlooked in the captions but not in the screening. Static casual relationships are considered to be etiological. The father's going away on business, which the mother resents, is given as the reason for the child's subsequent development. Why an expert mining engineer should be killed in an accident, unless it were unconsciously d

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