Word: freud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pusey heightened the controversy when he established the Freud Committee to examine possible misconduct among members of the Faculty during that period--a move which many called the first witchhunt since the McCarthy...
Mack says he sees himself as pioneering a newterritory in psychology. "This was not supposed tobe a formal research study," he says. "I felt likeI was in the tradition of Freud and Jung andErikson and others who were trying to map out anewdomain of human experience...
...doubt that experiences can be so traumatic that large parts of them are lost to conscious recall-the idea of repressed memory goes back to Freud. But psychologists, psychiatrists and other scientists are bitterly divided over the idea that the memory of repeated abuse can be completely wiped out and then recovered, virtually intact. The American Psychological Association appointed a task force in 1993 to develop a consensus on the issue. The group quickly stalemated, and its report, due next September, is expected to add to the confusion by including two conclusions, two critiques of those conclusions and two responses...
Every neurosis known to man and Freud is shared by the two dysfunctional writers who hurtle through the obstaclecourse plot of Wonder Boys. Grady Tripp, who narrates the novel, has produced no new books in the seven years that he has taught creative writing at a small Pittsburgh college. Instead, he spends his time smoking huge amounts of marijuana and churning out thousands of pages of his own novel, also called Wonder Boys, which he knows he will never finish. James Leer, one of Grady's students, is twenty years younger but no less screwed up. An awkward loner...
...Deal public-housing legislation (forever tagging the young actors who appeared in the film version as "The Dead End Kids"). The 1933 Pulitzer-prizewinning Men in White proselytized for abortion rights-and created much of the narrative vocabulary for all medical melodramas that followed. Kingsley's 1949 blend of Freud and fisticuffs, Detective Story, had a similar impact on the now ubiquitous, then trailblazing cops-and-crooks-and-crime genre...