Word: egos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kuby, 48. He was interested not so much in Rosie the prostitute, he explained, as in "Rosie, medicine for our big businessmen, who didn't visit her because she was so good in bed or so beautiful, but because they could unload their troubles, because she fed their ego, because she gave content to their empty lives...
When laymen say that someone died of a broken heart, they really mean a broken ego. Physicians agree that a deep blow to one's personality may lower physical resistance in some cases. Poorly handled losses have already been pointed to as triggers for many diseases, including cancer, tuberculosis, ulcerative colitis, heart failure. Question remains: does ego-damage really precipitate illness...
...quite separate attempts by the bodymind to adapt to loss and despair. To really nail down a link between object loss and biological vulnerability, it is also necessary to see how some people survive personality blows without getting sick. But theoretically, health depends largely on keeping the ego intact. If it does, then a blueprint analysis of a patient's personality may become as useful in preventive medicine as the X ray. Says Schmale: "It may be possible to predict the specific circumstances under which the patient will become sick...
...discards were ushered out with ego-salving white lies ("These shows require married people over 35"). The names of a few losers went into Diane's future files under such headings as Sexy Men, Sexy
...Chinese technique of mind-breaking discipline aimed at freeing the will. All things bubble along in one interrelated continuum, says Zen. Why try to "grasp" or "stop" them? The real problem is spontaneity: how to "let go" and "go with" the permanent impermanence. The Zen disciple must destroy his ego-consciousness, until his real self calmly floats on the world's confusion like a pingpong ball skimming down a mountain stream...