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...penis, turning to the father as a love object, and converting the wish for a penis into a wish for a child. Childbearing and most of women's aspirations are thus, per Freud, attempts to compensate for the missing male organ, and penis envy becomes "the bedrock" of women's unconscious frustrations throughout life...
...effects are hardly as malign as Freud thought. Analysts William Grossman and Walter Stewart suggest that penis envy in adult women should be interpreted as the "manifest content" of a problem-in other words, it is merely a metaphor for whatever may be troubling a woman, and not a "bedrock" problem...
...Cabinet choice was easier for Jimmy Carter to make than that of Idaho Governor Cecil D. Andrus, 45, for Interior Secretary. He was the only man ever considered for the job, said Carter. A flamboyant, maverick Democrat, Andrus has built his political career on the bedrock of espousing conservation causes−a subject that much interests Carter. Andrus gained his experience in a mountainous, 83,550-sq.-mi. state, where nearly two-thirds of the land is under federal control and hence subject to intensive pressures from those who want to exploit its natural resources...
Deep down underneath a maze of statistical formulas designed to compensate for assorted variables such as sex, age, race, geographic location and family status, the definition of poverty rests on one bedrock invariable: people must...
...really Siberia down there," Axel said last week. He estimated that he spent 10-12 hours a day inside a C-level stall while working on his thesis which deals with the founding of The Nation, an intellectual journal of the post-Civil War period. "The walls are bedrock. I sat there shivering and turning pages. The only problem was falling asleep." He laughed, "I haven't been able to work so well since I had that one bare bulb over my desk in Greenough freshman year...