Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, July 28). Not likely to quench the flames of controversy was an article in the Catholic weekly Commonweal by Catholic Psychologist Dr. Harry McNeill, prewar teacher at Fordham University, now a clinical psychologist in the Veterans Administration. Gist of the article: the Church has much to learn from Freud-and vice versa. Excerpts...
...fact is that Church scholars have given scant attention to parvenu Freud and extremely few Catholics have ever been analyzed. People who manifestly are unaware of the true nature of either psychoanalysis or confession have often facilely claimed that Catholics have confession, therefore do not need psychoanalysis. On the other hand, it is also curious to note the term 'absolution' appearing more and more frequently in psychoanalytic literature. . . . Whatever their similarities and differences, it is high time that Catholics and Freudians got together and swapped some of their trade secrets...
...turn directly on central psychoanalytic preoccupations. In connection with neuroticism they might look into the relationships between anxiety and the despair about which theologians have much to say. Theologians also have much to say about confidence and hope and the means of cultivating these good habits. ... In connection with Freud's capital concept of repression, which consists of the violent submergence of undesirable stimuli in the unconscious, they might look into its conscious counterpart, a defect of prudence which the classic moralists called inconsideratio...
Frustrated Immigrants. "Catholics too have much to derive from the Moses of modern psychiatry and his followers. To begin with, Catholics must recognize the fact and the importance of the unconscious. . . . Having realized under the promptings of Freud the implications of our own doctrines, we should take the next step and recognize the instrument, par excellence, for investigating the unconscious, namely, psychoanalysis...
...which has taken place, to a point where it seems the individual voice doesn't matter. So many write small novels of bewildered souls trying to figure their way out. The trouble with proletarian novels is that they're written from the outside looking in. And what Freud has done! Those little case histories. Freud is a great man, but we mustn't swallow him whole and not be able to digest...