Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of psycho-investigation opened by Sigmund Freud has been plowed, tramped, and camped on. In spite of picnickers with ants in their pants and farmers with bees in their bonnets, the field has produced some good grain, along with many a tare. Last week the field was entered by two authors who analyze the work of Freud by widely differing methods but reach the same conclusion: that psychoanalysis is an overrated science...
Definitely a picnicker in Freud's field, and a badly behaved one, is Gert V. Gontard who does some curious things...
...Sigmund Freud tackled the tabooed problem like a scientific poet, using words to dig up the roots of personality and family ties. His young friend Eugen Steinach went at the job in more orthodox fashion, in a laboratory, cutting up white rats to discover the secret of sexuality in glands and juices. Steinach became professor of physiology at the University of Vienna. There he got interested in the idea of staving off old age, and, after many years of research, devised a sex-gland operation to "reactivate" failing men, thrice "reactivated" himself. Like Freud, he was denounced as a charlatan...
After his friend Freud died last fall, 79-year-old Eugen Steinach puttered dismally about his Zurich refuge, giving hormone injections to barren cows. Deprived of his laboratory, he cried in despair: "What am I doing with my reactivated life?" Last week he tried to prove that in the past he had done great things. He published his first book addressed to laymen, an elegant volume called Sex and Life, garnished with pictures of dissected rats, rejuvenated dogs, and handsome Eugen Steinach...
Lined up for her first at-homes were Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin, 56, Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder, 42 (to elucidate James Joyce's Finnegans Wake). Next one will feature Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill, 65, who first titillated her old salon with Freud's teachings. The young people, suggests Mabel, seem somehow warier nowadays. Her main interests today are science, psychology, religion. Radicalism, believes Mabel, is "old hat." Still at Taos is Husband Tony. Explained Mabel: "He is coming for a visit in February, but he doesn't like New York. . . . He is an outdoors...