Word: conscious
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Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, up for 1958 re-election in an intensely civil-rights-conscious state, last week added his name to the brief list of Senators who will fight for a filibuster-busting rules change in the opening days of the 85th Congress. The attempt is foredoomed, and has diverted attention from a significant fact: there is a real possibility that in 1957 the Senate, its rules unchanged, and the House of Representatives will enact the first major civil-rights legislation since Reconstruction...
Walter Kerr, drama critic on the New York Herald Tribune, has heard many such snap judgments. U.S. Roman Catholics, says Catholic Kerr in a sharp little book called Criticism and Censorship (Bruce; $2.75), are wide-open to the suspicion of being too Index-minded or too censorship-conscious. He writes: "It sometimes seems as though the struggle over censorship were a struggle between Catholicism and the rest of America...
Ancient man had a psyche, by which he meant a soul. Modern man has a psyche, by which he is apt to mean a cumbersome machine full of id and superego, conscious and unconscious, with optional accessories such as Oedipal feedbacks. In place of the soul he has put psychology. In The Death and Rebirth of Psychology, published last week (Julian Press; $4), Dr. Ira Progoff suggests that with recent modifications psychology can now give man back his soul...
...broke away, denouncing Freud's "therapeutic nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed, which Adler ignored, and at which Jung only broadly hinted-achieved outstanding importance for Rank. It became something that each individual had to attain for him self on the plane of "spiritual realities." To Rank, man's core was the "will to immortality," that...
...edges of psychological theory. It remained for Otto Rank to demonstrate that this was much more than a personal belief of theirs but an unavoidable outcome of psychoanalysis. [He] showed that all analytical types of psychology require a step beyond themselves; otherwise they remain on the treadmill of self-conscious analysis." Depth psychology, believes Dr. Progoff, has only a transitional role in history, and if it is to fulfill its purpose, i.e., to show modern man the meaning of his life, "it can do so only by guiding him to an experience that is beyond psychology...