Word: animus
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Ultimately, Against Therapy amounts to an impassioned diatribe against the very idea of society. Masson does not make this animus particularly clear, but it surfaces occasionally, particularly in his concluding chapter: "Historically therapists have never been in the forefront of the struggle for social change. It is not in the interest of the profession to create conditions that would lead to the dissolution of psychotherapy." This is dime-store utopianism: people would not be unhappy anymore if the world were nicer. And Masson bristles at the notion of control: "Once we give anybody the right to decide who or what...
...course, all the participants agreed, there are other reasons for public animus toward the press, including such familiar problems as invasions of privacy and lack of fairness. Inevitably such confessional sessions begin to sound like those jock beer commercials: "More accuracy!" "Less arrogance...
...personifying and psychoanalyzing the film industry is misleading. The studios don't lie awake at night feeling bad about crass, blockbuster teen comedies, and they don't make major decisions based on collective guilt or animus. Studios are corporations and corporations collect money. And in Hollywood there's only one possession prestigious enough to risk money. on: an Academy Award. But the Oscar statue is far more than a recognition of achievement. It's also the most effective publicity device a studio can hope...
Acceptance! This is the preferred English path these days. What is missing in the new English sensibility, but not deeply missed, is a sentimentalized view of the misfortunate and the class animus that have energized English movies of the past 40 years. The new radicalism is psychological, not political, and it is often expressed as cheeky self-sufficiency...
...able to destroy private reputations at will." Describing Scalia as "the worst enemy of free speech in America today," New York Times Columnist William Safire implied that he seemed to be running for the Supreme Court by writing press-bashing opinions, though Safire noted that at least Scalia's animus against the press was sincere...