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Comment on The Last Word: Freud, The Irish & The Departed by Teressa Henesey
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“What Freud said about the Irish is: We’re the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis,” declares Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) in Martin Scorsese’s film The Departed.
Maybe Freud’s observation is such a great laugh line in the movie because the Irish – or those who hang out with us – can read their favorite stereotype about the Irish into it.
“I’m Irish and I’m a Freud scholar and I don’t think Freud ever said anything like that,” said Chicago psychoanalyst John Maguire.
Monahan, by the way, got off another good one-liner about the Irish in The Departed.
I was very shocked by it,” said Dr. Lynne Moritz, president of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
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