Word: freude
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Died. Gordon W. Allport, 69, giant among U.S. psychologists and longtime (1930-67) Harvard professor; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. Wary of the sweeping generalities Freud found in the human subconscious, Allport from the start insisted that each personality is an irreducibly unique cluster of character traits; that man acts not so much because of universal primordial drives but rather as a result of individual characteristics developed over a lifetime. It was once a highly controversial idea, but today more and more psychologists are coming around to this view, and his Personality: A Psychological Interpretation, written 30 years...
...survey some years ago, American psycho-therapists were asked to name the theorists whose work they found most useful. Sigmund Freud, of course, headed the list; second was Gordon Allport...
Allport himself was somewhat bemused by the fact, He had never established, as had Freud, a school of thought bearing his name; his students were as diverse in their outlook as the fields he brought together in 1946 to form the Social Relations Department. And that is the way he wanted...
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y., Playhouse. Luv, by Murray Schisgal, talks Freud and carries a slapstick, Sept...
...plot of Luv, one of the funniest Broadway plays of recent years. Transferred to the screen, the comedy of the absurd comes close to being a tragedy of the impossible. Author Murray Schisgal's original was a cockeyed but unerringly apt satire of people who make Freud their only poet, whose love talk is all about adjustment, alienation, angst and other pop-psychological cant. But this deft parody has given way to the adolescent vulgarisms of Scriptwriter Elliott Baker, who plots slapstick sequences in a department store and a Japanese restaurant that would be tasteless in a Jerry Lewis...