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...20th century--Freud's ideas radically and irrevocably changed the way we think about who we are. He both explained the human mind and made it more mysterious. One of Freud's key insights was to divide the mind into the conscious and the unconscious: he showed us that beneath the surface banality of everyday thoughts and gestures lurk subterranean caverns of forbidden longings that reach all the way back to our earliest childhood memories. Freud's therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis, was an intellectual exploration of those depths, where patients could confront their deepest, darkest desires. If they recognized and overcame...
...even folks as hardy as these can be pushed only so far. When the Youbao No. 2 Well Company started mining coal beneath their homes and the town school in 1993, they quietly endured the racket of underground dynamite blasts and watched the cracks spread in the walls of their brick houses. By the beginning of last year, however, part of the school had to be demolished because its foundation had become too unstable, and the walls of many houses had split. Finally, the locals determined to speak out, never figuring it would cost some of them their jobs...
...David Jakus are sick sabers who have more than kept themselves busy despite the inactivity—Hagermen was the third-highest American finisher at a recent Senior World Cup event, and Jakus competed in Hungary. Both sabers were recruited from the fencing hotbed of New York City, right beneath Columbia’s nose...
...color of the walls is hidden beneath the white and gold of prizes, certificates and trophies won by the students Turnbull endearingly calls his “children...
Sellars, who was born in Pittsburgh in 1957, is world-famous for staging bizarre twists on classic drama. With his short frame dressed in bright colors and elaborate accessories, Sellars speaks slowly and never breaks eye contact. He smiles frequently from beneath a shock of brown hair that resembles Astroturf...