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Calling Dr. Freud--When a Crimson reporter asked President Bok what building he would like named after him after he steps down from the presidency, Bok replied "I don't have an edifice complex...
...know, maybe Freud was rightmaybe we are all doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents. Perhaps that explains why I campaigned door-to-door for Herbert Hoover last year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like to be Harvard President, although, come to think of it, the one person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after all. Sincerely, Allen...
...this show had to be done -- and at a high level of curatorial skill -- in Indiana. No New York museum plans to take it; nor could Manhattan venues be found for Franz Kline, Guido Reni, early Poussin, De Stijl, Lucian Freud and quite a number of other splendid and informative exhibitions mounted by museums west of the Hudson in the past few years. There is something unpalatable about this, a dismal message about the provincial art politics of the supposed center...
...crux of women's existence, the researchers contend, is the sense of relationship, the interconnectedness of people. That notion challenges long- accepted theories of human psychological development. As set out by Freud and his largely male successors, healthy emotional growth is marked by a striving for autonomy. People who deviate from that pattern, as many women do, have often been considered immature, even psychologically ill -- victims, perhaps, of dependent personality disorder. But critics charge that that orthodox psychological dogma is based almost exclusively on studies of men. Ignoring women distorted the picture. The male voice, in effect, became the human...
...Freud, like everyone else, forgot to ask the second question: What do men really want? His omission may reflect the male fascination with the enigma of woman over the mystery of man. She owns the center of his imagination, while the fate of man works the margins. Perhaps this is why so many men have taken the Mafia oath of silence about their hopes and fears. Strong and silent remain de rigueur...