Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creates in Coils a mystical web of symbolic beings. There is Yorunomado, a figure of his imagination, which converses with Los, Blake personified. Niemonjima is the unknown desire for woman, and Mokpo is the heterosexual dogma, the "tool of social manipulation." Together these forces weave throughout Eshleman's life to create a harsh, painful poetic landscape...
...final analysis is weak--White thinks McGovern failed to read the public mood--a mood which, according to him, no longer trusted the post-world-war liberal dogma of the Democrats...
...trial brings into rare public focus the strange status of prostitution in Poland and other East European countries. Officially it does not exist. According to Communist dogma, the world's oldest profession is an evil peculiar to capitalism and has no appeal in a socialist state. In fact, prostitution flourishes in many parts of the East bloc, and nowhere is it more evident than in the big-city hotels frequented by Westerners...
Freudianism, the other dogma of the era, is very much concerned with what is going on inside the individual. To Freud, man was, in fact, buffeted about by internal, unconscious drives. These frequently caused neuroses, which, to be sure, could be alleviated by psychoanalysis. Repressed sexuality was a major problem in Freud's day, and he was not particularly concerned with other concepts of neurosis, like the feeling of meaninglessness that is so prevalent today. "I have always confined myself to the ground floor and basement of the edifice called man," Freud once wrote to a friend...
...himself, ossified and immobile, wheeled in on a huge golden throne, as the audience erupts in hair-pulling paroxysms of faith. But more is involved here than the obvious satiric bite. On the far side of sacrilege. Fellini has made an uneasy peace with the Church, ignoring questions of dogma, celebrating the wildest extremes of artifice. Ornate trappings, once the symbol of Church power, are now the tomb of its ruined power...