Word: freude
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men were interested in the psychic, the subconscious, and the unconscious, and in the work of Freud and Jastrow, as well as in the metaphysics of the British spiritualists...
...Ford 632 every woman wore a Malthusian belt, blushed with joy if a young man told her she was pneumatic. There was no pain, no disease, no old age, little thought. The words, "mother," "baby," "home," were gross obscenities, made so by Our Ford (who sometimes called himself Our Freud). Motto of the World State was Community, Identity, Stability; the Golden Rule was: "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else." Wisdom came straight from the horse's mouth . . . straight from the mouth of Ford himself: "Ford's in his flivver. All's well with the world." When you were...
...diagnose them outside in, priests diagnose them inside out; together they cover all the ground. When one man combines the abilities of both, he can hang out his shingle on the moon. Scores of sick men will then scurry to live on the moon. Should he, like Freud, open his office on Venus, half the world will scurry to live there...
More scientific, more sympathetic to Author Zweig is Sigmund Freud, whose pyscho-analysis makes "comprehensible . . . the voices that exhort us or allure us behind our waking words and our waking consciousness and to whose bidding we generally pay more heed than to that of our recognized will." Freud got his first real start in Paris under the famed Charcot who cured hysterical paralysis by hypnotic suggestion. Thereafter Freud made a systematic study of the subconscious, discovered the truth of the Chinese proverb: "What is pent up in the deepest recesses of the heart, sneezes itself...
...dream." More doctor than priest. Freud has founded no churches; his hope ful cures are based on an essentially hopeless philosophy. Of his teaching Author Zweig concludes: "Freud has done marvels, but there remain other marvels still to do. Now that his art of interpretation has revealed to the mind its hidden bonds, we await others who will once more disclose to it its own freedom, showing it how to stream out of its own confines into the universe...