Word: ego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country rather than stash the incriminatory bottles in his ash barrel; a lady reincarnationist who believes she once dined with a Pharaoh; the town's Mary Magdalene with whom Floyd finds it sweet to sin. These and other forlorn rebels form a kind of Freudian chorus attesting the ego-twisting power of convention...
...takes real guts to deride one of the world's greatest generals and statesmen in just a few sentences to satisfy an "imaginary" ego...
Miller took as the theme for this lecture, the first in a series of six, the quote: "The ego is more distant than any star." After examining two popular methods of understending the soul, introspection and dissection, he called for "location" as necessary for self-understanding...
Progoff quotes Freud as admitting that "certain practices of mystics may succeed in upsetting the normal relations between the different regions of the mind," so that the senses are "able to grasp relations in the deeper layers of the ego and the id." In his own analysis, Progoff regards the process described in The Cloud of Unknowing as a drawing back of all "attachments or projections, whether they are valid or false," which leads to "a deliberate attrition of consciousness." In turn, this results in a greatly increased activity of the unconscious. At this point the individual begins...
...often wears the face of good. Thus, in Copenhagen Season, the very strength of a soldier's love loses him the prize he wants; in A Country Tale, a proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction; the art to make them live vitally...