Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began a series of famed apostasies of disciples who refused to accept Freud's theories unconditionally. First Adler deserted, then Stekel, and finally "Crown Prince" Carl Gustav Jung himself. Biographer Jones suggests that the dissidents were those who still felt "obliged to perpetuate the rebelliousness of childhood...
...goes underground. The search for truth, he believes, was "the deepest and strongest driving force" in Freud's Me. What truth? Essentially the same thing as "the child's desire to know . the meaning of birth and what has brought it about." In Freud's early childhood there must have been a man who knew the secrets. "Well, there was his half brother Philipp [20 years his senior] whom he suspected of being his mother's mate . . ." Jones guesses that this half brother may have given young Sigmund some joking version of the facts of life...
...risking their freedom for the cause know full well that Minister Verwoerd will never rest until every bootleg school, every club and every knowledge crook is put out of business. After all, Minister Verwoerd has a cause of his own. "Natives," he once declared, "must be taught from childhood to realize that equality with the European is not for them...
Beyond Kindergarten. Born at Breslau, Silesia into a prosperous orthodox Jewish family, Edith was the youngest of seven children and the favorite of her stern, devout mother. After an intellectually precocious childhood, she decided to be an atheist at 13, remained one until she was 21. Later she fell under the spell of Phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, who bucked the relativistic trend in German philosophy by reaffirming the existence of objective truth and of a knowable world, i.e., phenomena. Edith's friends teased her, in rhyme, for thinking only of Husserl while other Austrian girls were dreaming of Busserl (Austrian...
...beginning of vision, seeing farther than human sight. And dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. I never go onstage without saying 'Here I am, Lord, use me.' I have had almost a vocation from childhood to be a religious . . . The dance is religion. It is the finest symbol of the activity of God that we have in this world...