Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground in the first chapter, where Fromm presents his thesis that loving is an art, in a very professional sense. According to Fromm, like other arts loving requires knowledge and efforts, discipline and concentration. Having presented this extremely Teutonic theory of love, Fromm proceeds to indulge his pet concerns: Freud's ideas about sex, and social criticism...
...justify his philosophy that loving requires conscious effort, Fromm revises Freud's insistence on the biological nature of the sex drive. For Fromm, sex becomes just another means whereby man tries to overcome his feeling of isolation. What happens is that Fromm's Psychology becomes a psychology of the conscious rather than of the unconscious. This accounts for the feeling we get after examining the thesis; that the ability to love requires more than discipline or knowledge, at least on the level of right and wrong...
Passionately addicted to self-scrutiny, the 20th century started out talking and worrying about its sex life with a nervous intensity that would have appalled earlier ages; it made prophets of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and that Baedeker of sexual abnormality, Richard von Krafft-Ebing. What remained was for someone to link the age's preoccupation with sex to its passion for statistics. That job was taken on, not surprisingly, by an American-Alfred Charles Kinsey of Bloomington, Ind., zoologist by training, who was determined to observe the sex behavior of the human animal with the scientific methods...
...last act, when her background is exposed and the play's pseudoallegorical meaning underlined. Laurel, the 13-year-old girl in the house, is impetuous, over-self-conscious, and neurotic in just the way one would expect from her family background. As she herself says, "My case is in Freud." Dominating the household is Laurel's grandmother, Mrs. St. Maugham, who typifies a way of life that is aristocratic, self-indulgent, warped, and gone forever. Her eccentricities, together with those of the Charles Addamsish butler, are not so well justified by the playwright. But still, all the characters are tastefully...
...Freud and Jung will soon be joining St. Augustine and Luther as prominent figures in the curriculum of the Harvard Divinity School. Under the terms of a grant announced yesterday, the National Institute of Mental Health is awarding $425,893 to Harvard, Loyola University of Chicago, and Yeshiva University of New York to develop a mental health curriculum for theological students...