Word: angst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Donnelly of Hartford's Institute of Living offers what is for laymen the most sense-making distinction: guilt is apprehension over some transgression in the past, whether actually committed or merely contemplated, whereas anxiety involves only the possible and the future. Because the German equivalent, die Angst, carries a stronger connotation of dread, many psychiatrists prefer this term to the English word. Of itself, anxiety is not a neurosis, but it is an essential ingredient in almost all neuroses, most major mental and psychosomatic illnesses. Its victims fall into three broad categories...
...give this book a brisk under-the-counter sale. It could even be useful in the schools, if they have not entirely abandoned the study of language. More work, however, remains to be done. What can the innocent reader make of the recent literary criticism without an entry under ANGST, SYNCRETIC, AMBIVALENCE, KITSCH Or ENAGEMENT, and how is he expected to follow W. H. Auden's recent criticism without the lowdown on CHARISMA...