Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Self-Imprisoned. It is just here that existential thought seemingly departs from the mainstream. To Freud, man was the hapless prisoner of his past. The best that he could hope for in the present was a truce with those stern and deterministic taskmasters whom Freud called the Super Ego and the Id. The goal of life was "adjustment." Hence it followed that unhappiness, anxiety and guilt were usually pathological states -a measure of the struggle against those dynamic and contradictory forces...
...Things. Some critics claim that existential theory differs only semantically from the Freudian, others that it is no more than a cupola added to the edifice that Freud built. In the opinion of Dr. Edith Jacobson, a New York analyst and a staunch Freudian, the whole concept of ego psychology (which deals chiefly with conscious processes) pays much the same respect to the human will that existentialists claim as their own creation...
...advertising, coddling the client's ego can be almost as important as selling his goods. The latest device for doing both at once is to give the corporate chief star billing in his company's ads. Wells, Rich, Greene popularized the idea last year by creating a television commercial for Trans World Airlines featuring the company's chairman, Charles Tillinghast Jr., who gave an elder-statesmanly address on the advantages of flying his line. Next, Wells. Rich turned out a print and television campaign for American Motors Corp. that focused on Chairman Roy Chapin Jr. stressing...
Died. Dr. Heinz Hartmann, 75, Vienna-born pioneer of psychoanalysis; of a heart attack; in Stony Point, N.Y. Hartmann's fame rests on his genius as a teacher and synthesizer rather than a practicing analyst. In numerous works backed by clinical observation (Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation), he refined and expanded many of Sigmund Freud's theories as well as placing them in a historical, biological and philosophical context...
...Portnoy's Complaint and The Adventurers, Segal worried that the omission might even keep the book from being published. "I thought people would say, 'Why, Segal can't even write a sex scene.' But my commitment to my characters overrode my ego and my commercial sense. Two is love. Four-adding the writer and the reader-is an orgy...