Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject. The problem seems simple: Why does Hamlet take so long to kill the King? Goethe's answer was that Hamlet was an intellectual whose habit of "thinking too precisely on the event" sapped his will. Subsequently, Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones fashioned a Hamlet with an Oedipus complex whose dilemma was amusingly compounded because he somehow knew he had an Oedipus complex. Recently Rebecca West produced the dissenting or beatnik Hamlet who has the strength to kill the King but refuses to enter the corrupting cycles of social depravity and power politics. There has even been Olivier...
...himself and from God and filled with anxiety because of his estrangement; that anxiety, in their view, results in sins of "pride, will-to-power, exploitation, self-assertiveness, and the treatment of others as objects rather than persons ... It is clear that such an analysis of man's dilemma was profoundly responsive and relevant to the concrete facts of modern man's existence...
Feminine Society. While "the specifically feminine dilemma is, in fact, precisely the opposite of the masculine," says Teacher Goldstein, and while women are beginning for the first time in history to find the time and education to make their way toward the more active, less biological levels of life, they are being told by masculine theologians that the desire for more self-awareness and more power in the affairs of the world is sinful. "If such a woman believes the theologians, she will try to strangle those impulses in herself. She will believe that, having chosen marriage and children...
...lolls in beauty shops, dawdles in poker palaces, waits for "a disk jockey to pick her number out of a phone book" and give her "a life supply of dentifrice." Later she lets her human feelings leak away in pointless sexual episodes, finally tries to run away from her dilemma at reckless speed in a secondhand car. She smashes up, but in the shadow of death she finds at last "the courage to say no to nothingness" and yes to life. Produced in Los Angeles for about $65,000. put up by the people who worked in the film...
...about time we offered the courts some practical assistance, and not a lot of starry-eyed theories that allow too many clever patients escape hatches into a mental hospital." Flux & Finality. To many distinguished listeners, Dr. Bolter was simply an angry man. But all psychiatrists are in a dilemma over criminal law. Most of them cannot work well with the courts...