Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those pre-Freud days, the intellectual did not speak of the libido; he nattered about the Bump of Amativeness (at the base of the skull, down there at the sides). God had nothing to do with "oceanic feeling" or a "father image," but could be found right up there at the top, where He belongs, in the Bump of Veneration...
...pessimism and fear. In this disquieting account of the rise and fall of phrenological "science," Author John D. Davis, onetime professor of history at Smith, has embedded a bale of fun among his footnotes. It is humbling stuff. If today's Pundit Walter Lippmann may be heard announcing Freud as "among the greatest who have contributed to thought," not so long ago President Garfield was having his "head read" and Walt Whitman was proudly reciting a poet's phrenological endowments in the preface to Leaves of Grass. Karl Marx took phrenology seriously, as did Bismarck and Darwin...
...James Purves-Stewart, at that time probably the most widely known neurologist in England, freely granted Freud's great contribution to psychiatry. "But," he said, "Freud's theories are like the bathroom in a house-highly valuable on occasion but no place to stay...
...review of Ernest Jones's book on his master, Sigmund Freud, comes close to being either idiocy or malicious nonsense...
...Freud was a man who, more than 50 years ago, shook the manners, the morals and the art of the world and remodeled them into a pattern that exists today. How we fight with Freud is only a measure of his continuing strength...