Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laymen, the late Ernest Jones (1879-1958) is best known as the author whose massive The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953 et seq.) gave the world its best glimpse so far at what went on behind the brooding brow of the father of psychoanalysis. But Welsh-born Ernest Jones was also the No. 1 psychoanalyst of the English-speaking world. In Free Associations (Basic Books; $5), his unfinished autobiography published last week, Jones offers the world a posthumous look into his own lively mind...
...consuming interest was in affairs of the mind. At the century's turn, he relates, medical psychology was virtually nonexistent in Britain. The doctors' approach to the mind was through the brain and other physical components of the nervous system, so Jones became a neurologist. (So was Freud.) Next, he went through a phase of studying medical uses of hypnotism. (So did Freud.) Then he discovered Freud's early writings on psychoanalysis, and knew that he had found the one true faith...
...entered into a seven-year relationship with a woman he identifies only as Loe. They lived openly together and traveled in Europe, Canada and the U.S. as man and wife. Indirectly, it was Jones's conversion to psychoanalysis that ended this partnership. Loe became emotionally ill, went to Freud to be analyzed-and, as a result, broke off with Jones...
...that, Jones's loyalty to Freud remained so deep that it prevented completion of his own autobiography. He started Free Associations in 1944, then laid it aside to spend most of the next decade turning out his definitive three-volume biography of the master. When he returned to the story of his own life, there was time to carry it only through World War I before liver cancer killed him. Ironically, despite all the evidence of a lifetime's discipleship, Jones to the last wrote scathingly of disciples, insisting: "I have always been much too independent to play...
...Started with a Kiss (M-G-M). "Any marriage is wrong when you take the sex out of it," complains newlywed Air Force Sergeant Glenn Ford, who has just arrived from two sexless years in Iceland. "Do you think you're smarter than Freud?" he asks Showgirl Debbie Reynolds, who thinks she is - almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that...