Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quotient of mind probers of one kind or another; there are some 40,000 professionally recognized psychiatrists and psychologists. Serious, important work is done by these practitioners-at least, by most of them-but their work is surrounded by a penumbra of popularization. Ever since the U.S. adopted Freud as a major prophet in the 1920s and '30s, more and more Americans have turned into do-it-yourself psychologists...
Such extravagant interpretations were put in their place by Freud himself who, so the story goes, once started a conference by lighting a stogie and announcing: "This may be a phallus, but, gentlemen, let us remember it is also a cigar." Says Philip Solomon, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard: "Almost everything is straight and narrow or rounded and curved. To apply genital meanings to all these things is ridiculous...
...When in doubt about personal motivation and/or lacking common sense, let us hastily draw our conclusions from the gospel according to Freud and rap "Mom" on the knuckles again...
...Freud dealt with noise irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a new form of trespass, a new invasion of privacy." The Dickensian poor may have had to make a virtue of propinquity, and the Latin races have historically prized it, but the upper middle classes in the U.S. find unwanted intimacy irritating. Unseen, but all too perfectly heard, are domestic strife...
Major causes of the high death rate, report Dr. Stanley Mohler, a specialist in aviation medicine, and Psychologist Sheldon Freud, were "risk-taking attitudes and judgments." The two researchers were impressed by "the tendency of many of these physicians to fly at night in inclement weather over dangerous terrain, despite limited or no instrument-flight experience. In most of the weather accidents, the pilots had received official briefings concerning adverse weather, but decided to depart anyway...