Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authors without such a business background-and even for some with -the problem is still a lack of real understanding of what goes on behind company doors. All too often their characters are stereotyped portraits grafted onto a business setting, characters closer to Freud than the factory. Even John P. Marquand argues Harvard Professor Lynn, in Marquand's novel about a businessman, Sincerely, Willis Wayde, has much of the action take place offstage in suburban drawing rooms, thus making it more a novel of manners than of business. Says Lynn: "Like so many writers, Marquand knows society well...
...writes: "I cannot conceive the possibility of God loving me, when I feel so clearly that even the affection which human beings evince for me can only be a mistake on their part." Yet she was not incapable of self-analysis, and at one point duels shrewdly with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures by means of colors composed of material substances. We haven't anything else with which to love ... The whole of Freudian doctrine is saturated...
...Joke on Tame Cats. The theme of Anglo-Saxon Attitudes is fraud leavened with a little Freud. In particular, it is the kind of fraud practiced by the English, who cling to the belief that if something awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin...
...people consulted University psychiatrists last year, and that at least as many are expected to do so this year, gives the psychiatric service, only 20 years old, an important place in University life. And, since the material with which many psychiatric interviews are concerned comes from what Sigmund Freud has called the unconscious, the Service's growing importance is likely to be the subject of debate, and often of unfavorable comment from those who feel psychiatry has no place in education...
Both Coon and Farnsworth have written about the kinds of student problems they have encountered in their psychiatric work. Coon has noted that Freud felt the neuroses to be "serious, constitutionally determined affections, which are seldom restricted to a few out-bursts, but make themselves felt as a rule over long periods of life, or even throughout its entire extent...