Word: freude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through confession, absolution and penance. "There are many souls stretched out on psychoanalytic couches today who would be far better off if they brought their consciences to a confessional box . . . The very passivity ... is symbolic of the patient's irresponsibility, which the whole theory of Freud assumes. It is in striking contrast to the man who says, not 'Oh what a fool I have been,' but 'God, be merciful to me a sinner...
...Sigmund Freud studied the Oedipus myth and came to a shocking conclusion: Oedipus, like most sons, was in love with his mother, and, as many a son would like to do, killed his father to get her. The Oedipus complex, said Freud, is an all-too-common ailment of mankind-"the essential part in the content of neuroses...
...real Oedipus complex-the rebellion of every son against patriarchal authority. It is rooted in "man's legitimate striving for freedom and independence." That striving, when thwarted, results in a "destructive passion" which must be suppressed. The suppression, in turn, often leads to neuroses in later life. Freud believed that the mother-son Oedipus complex was inevitable. Fromm thinks that there is a way to avoid the father-son Oedipus complex: let parents be less domineering, and let them have more respect for a child's rights...
...Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing at all to Arnold Toynbee, Edmund Wilson and the "Big Three" of psychology (Freud, Jung, Adler), whose words have become only-too-painfully"familiar...
...irresistible to the College's humorists, who wrote in votes for many curious people. Ted Williams led the write-ins with four, and was followed closely by Senator Vandenberg with three, and President Conant and Harold Stassen with two each. Abraham Lincoln, Father Feeney, John P. Wintergreen, Sigmund Freud, Jim Cronin, William Jennings Bryan, and Mickey Mouse got a vote spiece...