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This biological emphasis comports comfortably with the plots and subplots about betrayals by children. Such events do not pale before death; they become even more horrifying, because children are every parent's attempt at immortality. When sons and daughters assert their wills, they issue the last reminder of the permanence of the grave. -- W.A.H...
Freud the boy identified himself with Hannibal of Carthage. Freud the founder of the new "mind science" continually sought to assert his authority over associates, nearly all of them Jews. His colleagues appear to have been a touchy lot. Minor disputes frequently ended in nasty breakups and castings- out. But Freud's greatest distress came in dealing with Carl Jung, the son of a Swiss pastor, whose differences with his Viennese teacher had origins in the varying perspectives of Christianity and Judaism. Gay describes two meetings with Jung at which Freud fainted...
Milton provides an excellent example of his theory, Bloom said. "Milton's major desire was to assert his own authority as a poet-prophet, in excess of Moses and Isaiah," said Bloom...
While Hobson and McCarley say they do not disagree with Freud's theory of dream expression, they assert that the REM stage involves more complex activities than rehashing past experiences...
Noriega has accused the United States of engineering Delvalle's failed attempt to assert civilian control of Panama...