Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because he obviously wanted to ingratiate himself with and win back his audience, and was therefore careful not to push that audience too hard. Un intentionally, though, the film contains some true and poignant moments as Chaplin, the international celebrity, demonstrates his isolation and unworldliness through his fictional alter ego, and his consequent vulnerability to the prying and exploitation of the press and television. This was a subject Chaplin knew all about. When the King becomes an unwitting participant in a Candid Camera-type TV show or wittingly attempts to make a living by endorsing cheap booze, he finds...
Nabokov's abhorrence of Freud, "the Viennese witch doctor," is famous. Freud's vocabulary is simply too crude--maybe because it's too useful. His words are ones we use and over-use--"ego," "repression"--for want of better ones. This is not good enough for someone whose whole business is the delicate shading of every sense and tone. Such horrors as the scene in The Magic Mountain when Thomas Mann has his heroine ask to borrow the hero's pencil are ample warning that novels ought to be sources for the psychologist and not vice versa. For Nabokov...
...Your article "Murder of the Alter Ego," about the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco [Dec. 31], concludes with the statement: "The aging Franco had only two choices-to liberalize his regime or face the threat of having his country racked by more violence...
Gentle Persuasion. The Berkowitz-Newman brand of wisdom is vaguely Adlerian (Berkowitz attended the Alfred Adler Institute after taking his Ph.D. at New York University). Adler invented the term inferiority complex, and the book is aimed at people with shaky selfesteem. As Adler did, it recommends strengthening the ego and urges self-determination. Sometimes, at least. Actually the authors want to have it both ways: "When you try to do it all out of will power, you are not treating yourself with respect. You are making the assumption that change has to be imposed from above, that your self doesn...
...result of this murder, particularly women are reminded that they should not be out alone at night. Their need for men to protect them is even greater now than before. This will probably even serve as an actual ego-booster to many men, and yet the tacit acceptance of a situation where women cannot move freely about, but are in constant need of a male escort is a participation in that violence...