Word: ego
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when, on a holy pilgrimage to Rome, he is easily seduced by a sophisticated adventuress, he admits he is more pained by her sudden coldness than by his sin. Marrying a thin, homely servant girl, whose amiable vulgarity ever after disgusts him, he admits when she dies that his ego misses...
Freud's writings are always dramatic. In the world that he pictures, man's ego is always at war with his unconscious; sons are at war with their fathers; man's sexual instinct, as deeply rooted as his hunger for food, is at war with the norms and conditions of social life. And contrary to the usual impression, most of Freud's writing deals with the simplicities and not with the abnormalities of human experiences: with people sleeping, dreaming, blundering and forgetting, not with sexual aberrations and sexual crimes...
...practice. But he dealt mainly with appointments and policies; he really chose Wilson's cabinet, making his friend Bryan Secretary of State, and he appointed many ambassadors. A Snow White among wolves, he worked for "peace without victory" in Europe and for the "freedom of the seas" principle. His ego was satiated as the power behind the throne; greater power no other private citizen ever wielded as a sincere and quiet reformer...
...Midwest university furnishes Author Fisher's main clinical specimens. Mouthpiece is lanky, whimsical, brilliant Jim Jones, head of the psychology department, who psychologizes the theme of the book: that "both among persons and nations" over-or underdevelopment of the ego causes most contemporary maladjustment, with sex playing the decisive role...
...lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it." This almost Elizabethan idea of death as the ever-present alter ego of life is one of Hemingway's fundamental concepts...