Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fearful middle class, Negro as well as white, can no longer afford to ignore violence, a phenomenon from which no human being is exempt. Freud held that man has a death instinct that must be satisfied in either suicide or aggression against others. Many modern psychiatrists disagree. Dr. Fredric Wertham, famed crusader against violence, argues that violence is learned behavior, a product of cultural influences such as violent comic books. The violent man, he says, is the socially alienated...
...surrealists on U.S. abstract expressionism. The relationship has been obscured until now, partly by the abstract expressionists themselves, who kept their early surrealistic canvases out of sight. The confusion was compounded by the fact that the original surrealist manifesto of 1924 envisioned two different techniques for applying Freud's then radical theories...
...awesome awareness of it. True awareness, they say, lies in the endless inner space of consciousness, and that can only be approximated in literature, just as iron filings can indicate but never duplicate a magnetic field. New Novelists also agree that plot, characterization and psychology are outmoded: Freud is forsaken for Heidegger's phenomenology and the cold squint of the behaviorists...
...victim. This is Koerner's way of saying that the bullfight is really a surrogate for a much more primitive sacrifice. The woman in white is both a modern Pittsburgh housewife and the old cannibal mother goddess of the ancient Mediterranean. The amazing thing about this painting, which Freud, Jung and Eliade would understand, is that Koerner had no conscious plan when he began to create...
...brought many of the disciples of Sigmund Freud who were persecuted by Hitler to Boston. The Institute was an extraordinary thing for that time," said Cope...