Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Insatiable Appetite. When Freud read Stendhal's memoirs of his childhood and adolescence he called them "a manifestation of psychological genius." Stendhal, he saw, had been a Freudian some 70 years before Freud himself...
...psychiatric treatment, ranging from a single $5 (or free) clinic visit to a $25,000 lifetime course, the luxury trade is psychoanalysis.* Concentrated mainly in neurotic Manhattan, psychoanalysis is split into at least a dozen schools, from orthodox Freudians to socially conscious Horneyans (leader: Dr. Karen Horney), who dispute Freud's idea that sex is everything and put more emphasis on environment. Its big-league practitioners include Dr. Franz Alexander, who directs the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg and Dr. Lawrence Kubie, fashionable Park Avenue analysts; Drs. William and Karl Menninger of Topeka's Menninger Clinic...
...Freud in the Suburbs. Intellectuals, Orwell implies, may snigger if they will at Dickens' sentimentality and Kipling's imperialistic fervor, but they had much better spend their time getting wise to the far worse perversion of ethical values that is creeping up right under their disdainful noses. This perversion, says Orwell, is most clearly revealed in the obscene pulp fiction that is now, he fears, taking root in Britain...
...good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable...
...breeder of racing stars must combine the arts of practical nurse, Doctor Freud, and the president of Harvard . . . .--Saturday Evening Post...