Word: couched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mounted a death watch. Behind shuttered doors Nicosia waited as Father Antonios, head priest of Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments. Karaolis wrote out his confession on a piece of paper. At 4 a.m. a guard nudged Antonios from a restless couch, led him to a dim room where two plain coffins stood by the wall. Because the British insisted on burial in the prison courtyard, i.e., in unhallowed ground, the Orthodox priest could not hold service. He read briefly from the Bible, then kissed each man on the forehead. They died...
...Freudian Couch (Contd...
...Freudian Couch...
...glaring id-ego-syncrasy in Freud's primary approach: if he had only asked the question "Why am I?" rather than "What am I?" his searching would have led eventually to the soul-triumphant symbol of the Cross rather than the sex-triumphant symbol of the couch...
...found its place-not among the poor but among the intelligentsia of the West -not among the deeply ill psychotics (Freud felt that psychoanalysis did not appear to be applicable to the psychoses) but among the maladjusted. The Freudian couch was primarily crafted for them...