Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homosexuality curable? Freud thought not. In the main, he felt that analysis could only bring the deviant patient relief from his neurotic conflicts by giving him "harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed." Many of Freud's successors are more optimistic. Philadelphia's Dr. Samuel Hadden reported last year that he had achieved twelve conversions out of 32 male homosexuals in group therapy. Paris Psychiatrist Sacha Nacht reports that about a third of his patients turn heterosexual, a third adjust to what they are, and a third get no help...
...down the ages have experienced sex, the question persists: What is it? The average man's or woman's answers are as uninformative as the paeans of poets, and not until a century ago did medical science tackle the question. Then even such pioneers as Krafft-Ebing, Freud and Kinsey relied on what their subjects told them - and gathered mostly emotion-laden impressions...
...Vergil, guide to those infernal regions from which he returned a man possessed by demons. He exorcised them by the masterpiece called Under the Volcano, which can be read as a novel but understood only as a parable of the pit. "William James if not Freud," he wrote in a letter to his British publisher, "would certainly agree with me when I say that the agonies of the drunkard find their most accurate poetic analogue in the agonies of the mystic who has abused his powers...
...Freud is not the only fink. Marx and the Communists, at least in their Moscow incarnations, are just as Out with the new radicals, who prefer Peking and Havana. Complaining that the young are not really interested in ideology but only in protest for the sake of protest, Editor Irving Kristol, 42, notes that the same middle-aged critics like himself who so fervently condemned "the silent generation" of the '50s "are now considerably upset and puzzled at the way students are 'misbehaving' these days. One wants the young to be idealistic, perhaps even somewhat radical, possibly...
...this, he was often described as a mere storyteller. Today, after Joyce and Freud, "storyteller" is somehow considered a term of denigration, and critics may reasonably question the depth of Maugham's insights. But he was able to do supremely well what storytellers are supposed to do-to dramatize character by putting that character into action, a specific action that displays in kinetic terms his or her faults and virtues...