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...charge of plagiarism against my book Passages [May 10] is wholly false. There are no precise facts when one is examining the human personality. And there are almost no pure ideas: everyone has been influenced by someone who has gone before. We are all students of Freud. In this instance, the original theory came from Erik Erikson. Most of the current research, I discovered, was being done by men who were studying other men. I focused on-the life stages of women, and once it became apparent that the development rhythms of the two sexes are strikingly unsynchronized, I went...
...relatively new field of psycho-biography is already cluttered with dismal studies such as Freud and Bullitt's Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Twenty-Eight President of the United States. In that text the authors explain the U.S.'s decision to go to war against Germany in 1916 as a function of Wilson's urge to satisfy charges of libido while pleasing his Superego. Others, like the Georges' study of Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House, are much more subtle; they present the subject's boyhood background and then use psychological imprints as keys to understanding formerly inexplicable courses of action in later...
Radical feminists regard Sigmund Freud as the ultimate male chauvinist -and with some reason. The master taught that women are masochistic, secretive, insincere, dependent and jealous, have little sense of justice and become more rigid and unchangeable at an earlier age than...
...bound to incur feminist wrath. Says Co-Author Dr. Eleanor Galenson of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine: "Some women's lib people have felt that penis envy is a dirty word, but there is no doubt that it occurs, and much earlier than Freud thought...
Some psychoanalytic researchers play down Freud's heavy emphasis on infant sexuality, arguing that it is merely one of many variables in early childhood that shape individual psychology. To Galenson and Roiphe, however, infant sexuality is crucial: they found that children around the age of 16 months are "very aware of sexual differences," easily aroused sexually, and in fact are masturbating as part of normal development. Dr. Galenson feels that adult sexual problems like frigidity may have their origins in these early months of life. To minimize these disturbances, she suggests that parents not flaunt sexual differences by marching...