Word: freude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more "plausible" than, say, Othello-than of squeezing in as many sentimental and sensational elements as possible. This applies even to motivations, as with the lurking homosexuality in the blatantly masculine housemaster. At times it becomes as hard to imagine how popular drama ever got along without Freud as how routine farce ever did without the telephone...
...deep analysis of the theory of democracy will take place in Burr Hall A this fall Soc. Sci. 118 generally acclaimed as one of the top advanced G.E. courses will feature popular Louis Hartz as lecturer. Not a gut by any means, the reading list ranges from Locke to Freud, and a good deal of individual thought is necessary for any token of success...
...American and come of age. She is an excellent cook; "cleanliness next to Godliness," she says, and subscribes to Tennyson's three virtues of faith, hope and chastity. Added to these is a charming sophistication; she speaks knowingly of a "mother instinct," and has gone to school of Freud and D. H. Lawrence...
What Is Normal? An old pollster has suggested the formula: Freud + Gallup x Kinsey. The formula is correct to the extent that Kinsey combines the 20th century's preoccupation with sex, symbolized by Sigmund Freud, with a weakness for piling up facts & figures, symbolized by George Gallup. In earlier ages of Western civilization, the dominant question about opinion was never how many people held it, but whether it was right or wrong...
...tell him In the female volume, which he calls a far more human document than its predecessor, he does his best to explore the psychological factors in sex. But he can only check off emotions; he cannot measure them. He cannot detect (and this is where his kinship to Freud ends) emotional factors buried deep in the unconscious, or religious and ethical concepts which are none the less real and forceful for being "unscientific." Human beings who need ideals and emotions as well as the physical comforts of marriage have values which no punch card or computer can capture...