Word: analyst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first glance, the letters seem only the posturings of a dilettante, but this impression soon wears off. Proust's letters display a remarkable transformation in character: from an effete youth to a sharp observer of the tragedy in life, from a superficially clever snob to a mordant analyst and remorseless judge of snobbery...
Louis Bean, the only political analyst who predicted President Truman's re-election, will share the lecture platform with Associate Professor Louis Hartz and Professor Alvin Hansch tonight in a discussion of "1948 Elections and After." The meeting will take place in Emerson D at 7:30 p.m. under the auspices of the Liberal Union and Radcliffe's Students for Democratic Action...
...Does It Work? How does a psychiatrist straighten out the conflicts? Freud, after finding hypnotism inadequate, devised the most sneered-at tool in all psychiatry: the couch. The couch is supposed to make the patient relax. The analyst places his chair at the head of the couch, where he is unseen by the patient. The idea is to get the patient to put all his thoughts and feelings into words. Such "free association" is the essence of psychoanalysis...
...wishes." of "suppressed desires," of hidden motives. He watches for these signs in accounts of dreams, in words, in reported actions, in sudden hesitations and slips of the tongue, in strange lapses of memory. As the talks go on-and on & on-the patient gets used to having the analyst there, listening. The analyst does not try to boss, but often guides, the patient. The theory is that if the patient talks enough about his troubles, he will finally get 1) the relief any confession brings; 2) a somewhat less sentimental view of himself; 3) a realization that...
...other words, Paris is primarily a job for a first-rate reporter and political analyst, and Laguerre feels that his staff has had considerable success in winnowing the real news from the political chaff that whirls through the French capital each week. A case in point was the disclosure (in TIME'S June 3, 1946 cover story on French Communist Party Boss Maurice Thorez) of the now accepted fact that there can be a split between the different Communist parties of the world over the issue of nationalism...