Word: freude
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squalls at them cheerfully, "you guys are gonna drive me nuts! Har! Har! Har!" Oh, that Peck really breaks the boys up, but he puts them all together again with sodium pentothal and sympathy. One after another they go from snakepit to cockpit, secure in the knowledge that Freud is their copilot...
People who write good social criticism these days are essentially gadgeteers. Like Freud, contemporary social critics enjoy tinkering around with their own perceptions, ordering them with analytical categories taken from the academe as well as with a journalist's feel for day-to-day events. However, in using this approach, modern critics have not ignored the austere tradition of prophet and moralist, one "crying in the wilderness." Of course, our better critics, the ones we can take seriously, are more sophisticated than a Jonah or Isaiah. Yet, as the old prophets did, men like Riesman worry a lot about what...
...there any Freudian theory you find unacceptable?" one spectator asked the tall child psychologist. Spock answered that he only found fault with several modern interpretations of Freud. "I can never get over how smart Freud was," Spock added, "not to have tried to advise parents how to bring up their children...
...other hand, many parents "louse themselves up" by taking children too seriously and constantly categorizing them in terms of Freud, Spock, author of the best-selling Baby and Child Care, continued...
Guardian of What? Though such facts have been established, the basic question remains: Why does anybody dream at all? Kant and Schopenhauer equated dreams with insanity. Freud called dreaming "the guardian of sleep"; he concluded that the sleeper dreams of problems (often heavily disguised) that boil up in his unconscious because they are too painful or threatening for the conscious mind to face. The dream, he said, preserves sleep by offering a palliative for the problem...