Word: daydream
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Many things in life are worth hating, Greenson notes, and hatred can be valuable in stimulating creative action. Simply experiencing hatred in a daydream may suffice to maintain mental health. Says Greenson: "A conscious death wish a day, without guilt, keeps the analyst away...
...great idea as a stunt in civil disobedience. But as a book, the balloon does not hold up quite so well, though it may fascinate people who daydream about becoming system saboteurs. Author Hatch has helped his story by including a fine short course on the myths and truths about jet planes, their noise and their impact on human beings. One old saw neatly skewered: the aviation industry's contention that man can adjust to any noise level. That is simply medically false. In response to such facts, sufferers of noise pollution can only sound a loud "Hear! Hear...
Unusual preoccupation with the motorcycle. "When the patient is not actually riding a motorcycle, he tends to daydream continuously of doing so. The mere sound of a distant motorcycle stimulates vivid fantasies...
...Wunderlich's art. In his earlier works, it was tortured and twisted, shorn of limbs, reduced to a skeleton, provoking comparisons with Dürer and Cranach, Redon and Bellmer. Death, he seemed to say, is in all life, deformity in all beauty, and behind the erotic daydream is the ever-present nightmare of flesh doomed to decay. Today, his figures appear more whole, more sensuous, more magnetic. Love has banished dreadful death...
Electrodes. "O.K., let's go," says Mrs. Shriver, 44. The first film of the day is a Japanese import, The Daydream, a collage of sensual sounds and sadomasochistic fury. On the screen, a man hangs a girl from the ceiling by ropes, then cuts off her clothing with a knife. "I'm either out of touch with Oriental culture," says Mrs. Shriver, wife of an oil-company executive, "or there's something here that escapes me." In another scene, the man strokes the girl's private parts. Both are naked except for masks...