Word: freude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sigmund Freud's theory of the psyche developed substantially from his own practice-which, in turn-of-the-century Vienna, obviously had its limitations. How, if at all, did those limitations affect the theory, which continues to nourish all of psychiatry today? This question has been explored by Benjamin Brody, 50, a New York psychologist. Brody's provocative suggestions, published in Psychotherapy magazine: some of psychoanalysis' most widely accepted canons can perhaps be traced to the unrepresentative nature of the Freudian case load. Since Freud went to great lengths to protect his patients' identities, Brody...
Self-Imprisoned. It is just here that existential thought seemingly departs from the mainstream. To Freud, man was the hapless prisoner of his past. The best that he could hope for in the present was a truce with those stern and deterministic taskmasters whom Freud called the Super Ego and the Id. The goal of life was "adjustment." Hence it followed that unhappiness, anxiety and guilt were usually pathological states -a measure of the struggle against those dynamic and contradictory forces...
People and Things. Some critics claim that existential theory differs only semantically from the Freudian, others that it is no more than a cupola added to the edifice that Freud built. In the opinion of Dr. Edith Jacobson, a New York analyst and a staunch Freudian, the whole concept of ego psychology (which deals chiefly with conscious processes) pays much the same respect to the human will that existentialists claim as their own creation...
Born in Ada, Ohio. Rollo Reese May studied psychoanalysis under Alfred Adler, who was one of Freud's apostates. He also studied art in Poland and Greece and, after returning from Europe in the 1930s, enrolled in New York's Union Theological Seminary .-"to ask questions, ultimate questions about human beings-not to be a preacher." He did serve briefly in a Congregational parish in Verona, NJ. The years he spent as a tuberculosis patient brought this varied background into focus. There, face to face with death, he discovered what he took to be its true relation...
...Sigmund Freud...