Word: ego
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observed vitally, and during those years when they might better be acquiring a background that would enhance all that they might subsequently care to express." In a word, that Prof. Baker's expensive work at Yale be dedicated, not to the alleviation of yearnings of the undergraduate ego, but to the serious business of fostering a national drama...
...bright college years. A psychiatrist attached to the Faculty makes it his business to look into the mental and emotional problems of undergraduates and to treat them with a view to their adjustment. Contrary to expectation, the undergraduates have responded in numbers. This may be set down to the ego's delight in the study of the ego, which is accountable for so much of the vogue of the new psychology. But the authorities at Dartmouth think otherwise. The results of psyching the student, they say, are "of inestimable value" chiefly no doubt, as preparing a future in which...
...second book, a translation of Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse, discusses the relations of the individual (ego) to the group or crowd; shows how the ego is absorbed by a mass ego, which then acts independently and often in violent opposition to the individual...
...chapter on Being in Love and Hypnosis, is a masterly exposition of the transfer of the ego to the object or person loved (distinguished from purely sensual love or, in psychoanalytical parlance, the libido). This transfer is due to mutual influences; absence of personal criticism; supreme evaluation of characteristics, usually to the detriment of outside persons; quasi-repression of the sexual passions. Two people in love, therefore, have absorbed each other's ego.. The author then parallels love and hypnosis or, in other words, he calls hypnosis love minus the sexual appetite...
EXPRESSING WILLIE - Delightfully satiric jabs at the urge to parade one's ego under the banner of Self-Expression...