Word: freude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Freud asserted the sexuality of children, Simone de Beauvoir asserts the sexuality of the old. Sexuality, she says, is the index of energy, curiosity and life force in a human being. When sexuality falls off, the old person either has death in life or dies. Where women remain sexually capable to the end of their lives, men generally lose their ability to sustain an erection. Men, in effect, can never resolve their castration complex; castration is a reality they must expect. Old age is a defeat in sexual terms...
...focus of treatment, however, is psychological, not physical. That treatment is based neither on Pavlov nor on Freud, whose theories have had no influence in China since the People's Republic was established in 1949. Instead, both psychiatrists and their patients study the popular slogans and the philosophical essays of Mao "to arm the mind to fight disease." The idea is to use Mao's thought to separate fact from fantasy, and to concentrate on the present rather than the past, the intellectual rather than the emotional...
SOME naturalistic novels you read like you would your Freud or Marx, to grasp some wide-scale analysis of human experience to use to change your life. Others you might read solely for their expressive vision of a stratum of common experience, which might encompass ideology enroute, but is mainly concerned with the stink and feel of actions and their settings...
...assigning of absolute internal or external causes for suicide-from sheer loneliness to Freud's famous death wish-founders on the mysterious (and miraculous) fact that under similar stresses some people kill themselves and some do not. Counselors like Pretzel naturally worry less about absolutes and man's right to die than they do about the necessary conspiracy of the living to help one another carry on. An estimated 90% of attempted suicides who are saved by prevention centers are pitifully grateful afterward...
...19th century man glumly opening the door on the 20th, Freud once wrote: "The moment one inquires about the sense or value of life, one is sick...