Word: deutscher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early attraction to Marxism and their later repudiation of it in favor of conservatism. "Open a copy of National Review," he says, "and we find the renegades from radicalism as cold war avengers. Positions have changed, but the passions remain." The ex-communist becomes an "inverted Stalinist", in Isaac Deutscher's phrase. Diggins defers to Deutscher's descriptions of such...
That view is held both by Manhattan Psychoanalyst Max Deutscher, who has just begun a new study of the dreams and fantasies of first pregnancy, and by San Francisco Psychiatrist Arthur Colman and his wife Libby, authors of Pregnancy: The Psychological Experience, to be published in January by Herder & Herder. As Deutscher and the Colmans see it, the transformation of marital partners into parents goes through three stages lasting three months each. THE FIRST TRIMESTER is basically a time of shock, during which the coming birth is recognized as a cause of major chang es. The wife becomes more dependent...
...SECOND TRIMESTER is more peaceful. The most important event is the quickening, when the developing infant's movements can first be felt and it begins to seem human. According to Deutscher, couples report playing with the wife's belly and "pushing it to call forth a response from the fetus." There is, he says, "a sense of hilarity and awe, of joking and solemnity and of some quality of respect" that is almost religious...
...this period, mothers may talk to the fetus (''Let's go shopping today"), and most couples give the baby a name -though Deutscher has found that maladjusted couples may christen it "The Thing" or "The Monster." Both husband and wife have fantasies about their child's personality...
...second theme is often expressed as worry over delivery-a worry that can affect men as well as women. Frightened by a film depicting childbirth, one husband dreamed that his wife painlessly delivered nine cellophane-wrapped babies in cardboard boxes. In Deutscher's experience, couples who do not express their fears frequently fail to create a real family...