Suppressed Desires

Suppressed Desires (1915), co-written by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, is a satirical one-act comedy in two scenes that lampoons the early 20th-century craze for psychoanalysis. The play follows married couple Henrietta and Stephen Brewster, whose domestic peace is disrupted by Henrietta's obsessive enthusiasm for Freudian analysis, and takes a hilarious turn when Henrietta's visiting sister Mabel is told by a psychoanalyst that she harbors a suppressed desire for Stephen. First performed by the Provincetown Players in 1914, the play remains one of the most celebrated satires of the psychoanalytic movement.