Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freud suffer from feelings of guilt when he named his famous daughter Anna after his sister of the same name, who had caused him to "suffer pangs of jealousy" and "he never liked or forgave...
Thank you for your excellent article on Freud. It was put together with a maximum of skill and a minimum of partisanship...
Shame upon Swiss "Catholic" Psychiatrist Charles Baudoin, who babbles ". . . Modern man cannot conceive of himself without Freud." How fortunate that God, who thought that He had revealed man's purpose to man long ago in Revelation, belatedly realized that He had bungled and created Sigmund Freud to set things right...
...minor complaint-your failure to point out that the mystic-sounding terms Id, Ego and Superego are just so much Anglo-American psychiatric jabberwocky for simple concepts. In his native German, Freud used understandable terms: es, ich and überich-literally translatable as the it, the I and the beyond-I. This kind of linguistic lily-gilding by Freudian exponents is the stuff that cultism is made...
Your story on Freud (with another wonderful portrait by Ben Shahn) has probably done more to inform embarrassed non-Freudian cocktail conversationalists than 20 hours of college lectures could. Your text served mainly to point out one glaring id-ego-syncrasy in Freud's primary approach: if he had only asked the question "Why am I?" rather than "What am I?" his searching would have led eventually to the soul-triumphant symbol of the Cross rather than the sex-triumphant symbol of the couch...