Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, in the aftermath of the Illinois primary Mondale may have regained the upper hand, if not front-runner status. Even though his general election prospects look bleak, he retains a distinct advantage in the upcoming weeks of balloting. The next two major campaign events, in New York and Pennsylvania, are closed primaries, which leave independents locked out of the voting booth. Victories in both of these states would give Mondale a significant delegate lead and leave Hart struggling to catch up in the relative dearth of big events between Pennsylvania on April 10th and the Texas caucuses...
...Olsen continually indicates, suffering is the operative word in the lives of almost everyone in "Son." Without prurience, he adds up the aftermath of Coe's vicious spree: years later, some of his victims cannot stand to be touched, a few are frigid, and all are afflicted by violent dreams. Monahan's marriage ended in divorce. Said her husband: "We'd had a good marriage, and after that we just started to go apart." Alone, she slept in a closet. To her, "night smells different from day. Night smells like rape...
...aftermath of this fiasco, Masson maintains, Freud gradually and subconsciously convinced himself that Emma's bleeding was not caused by the actions of his friend Fliess, but occurred for other reasons. Freud came to believe that her spells of bleeding were Emma's ways of expressing a longing for his presence. Freud wrote that "her episodes of bleeding were hysterical, were occasioned by longing" and that "she became restless during the night because of an unconscious wish to entice me to go there, and since I did not come during the night, she renewed the bleeding, as an unfailing means...
Masson carefully traces this shift, chronicled in the letters Freud wrote to Fliess in the aftermath of the operation. According to Masson. "The powerful tool that Freud was discovering the psychological explanation of physical illness, was being pressed into service to exculpate his own dubious behavior [in allowing the operation] and the even more dubious behavior of his closest friend. Freud has begun to explain away his own bad conscience...
...call Freud sexist is nothing new, but this book is striking in its account of Eckstein's bungled treatment at the hands of Freud and Fliess. The illfated operation can be excused as potentially well-meaning, but the two men's attitudes toward her in the aftermath of the surgery are truly appalling. Neither doctor, Masson's research reveals, felt any guilt or compassion towards Emma, who nearly died as a result of the failed operation...