Word: confict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...employ a superstructure of sometimes infinite complexity resting on a few simple premises and motivations. Through an induced preoccupation with the superstructure rather than the foundation, consequences many times removed from their causes are made to combine almost chemically into a facade which distracts from and undercuts the basic confict, ultimately vanishing with great speed and leaving the conflict solved. The effect is that of an unforgivably mixed metaphor which on second glance--and, therefore, also on the glance of the subconscious--reduces itself to a gut consistency. Hence satisfaction...
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