Word: freud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...development of the Boston mind-from Puritan bedrock to the brilliant flights of the Emersonian era, and towards the final settling in the dreary marshes of the Mayor Curley epoch. The book ends on "the late George Apley's" symptomatic, harassed query about "a certain doctor named Sigmund Freud," who seemed to proper Bostonians a latter-day Emblem of Hell...
Died. Dr. Otto Marburg, 74, exiled Viennese neurologist, longtime good friend of the late great Sigmund Freud; of cancer; in Manhattan. Author of several standard texts on the nervous system, Dr. Marburg had been head of the University of Vienna's Neurological Institute for 19 years when he came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1938, joined Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons as clinical professor of neurology...
Like his others, The Outer Edges is a sort of chapter from Freud-made-easy; it burrows clinically into some untidy closets of human guilt and frustration. In his first book, he managed to put most of his readers in a dipsomaniac's shoes. In his second, on homosexuality, he was nowhere near so persuasive. Now he has written about a grisly rape-murder case to prove that, vicariously at least, there is something of the murderer in everybody...
Young Doctor Parris Mitchell (the hero of Kings Row), a home-town boy but a Vienna-trained psychiatrist, has become a paragon of goodness. As a disciple of Freud, he naturally has a hard time convincing his fellow citizens that he is more than a doubletalking quack. In time he not only shames his narrow-minded enemies but gives them, free, some sobering doses of analysis as well. At times coming very close to being a boring do-gooder, he rids a local rich man of his compulsion to bay like a hound, comforts the intimidated German townspeople when World...
Died. Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, 73, dean of U.S. psychiatrists, first (1909) to translate Sigmund Freud into English; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Austrian-born Dr. Brill, until his fatal illness, remained a practicing psychoanalyst, a teacher at Columbia and N.Y.U., the leading U.S. Freudian...