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...Cain Complex...
...keynote of Harvard is competition. From the first days of comparing college board scores in the Freshman Union, the undergraduate is placed in opposition to his symbolic siblings. These rivalries are compounded by honest feelings of brotherhood that grow between classmates. One envies, like Cain. One must win the approval, over others, of House Masters, professors, and activity leaders. To win out, it pecomes perpetually necessary to do in one's brothers. Thus, while the primary emotion of the Cain complex is envy, its secondary emotion is guilt...
...reasons Psychiatrist Philip Weissman, his murderous rage was directed not only against his father but also against his older brother (and rival actor) Edwin, who had been publicly praised by Lincoln. Hence the significance of the remark in his diary after the assassination that he had "the curse of Cain" upon him. Still, Booth might not have acted out his "paranoid delusions" if his mother, who doted on him, had not repeatedly told him of a dream she had when he was an infant, visualizing him carrying out "an act of brave but bloody violence in the name...
...opposite) two large panels picture the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the Virgin Mary, her body supported by two angels before its assumption into heaven. Below (see overleaf), Manzù evokes scenes of death from the sacred history of the church-Abel clubbed by his brother Cain, St. Joseph waiting calmly for the ebbing of life, the first Christian martyr St. Stephen being stoned by a Jerusalem mob, Gregory VII dying on his papal throne. The agony of modern death is shown as well: a Bergamo partisan hanged upside down by the Fascists, Pope John praying...
...painted St. Peter's Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1947 the Holy Office denounced as "obscene" a Manzù crucifixion scene that depicted a totally naked Christ. Last year, after viewing a plaster cast of the doors, Vatican representatives objected to four of the panels as too profane: Cain and Abel, death by hanging, death of a mother, death in space. Manzù, who is not a practicing Roman Catholic, staged a studio sit-in, finally got his own way by threatening not to finish the doors...