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Harvey Roy Greenberg

Many adventure films reflect a boy’s conflict over competition with his father and its genital overtones, often reflected in swordplay and marksmanship, but few so wonderfully, with both drama and humor, as the 1939 Zoltan Korda movie, The Four Feathers. 

I was reminded of this old favorite by a patient in therapy.  He is an army veteran, an unhappy man who was describing his feeling of dissatisfaction with himself because he was not in active combat even though that was simply a matter of timing and no fault of his own.  His father, grandfather, and possibly great grandfather had been in World War II, I, and who knows.  Continue reading “The Four Feathers”: The Pineapple on the Table