Word: freude
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...wrote the novelist Virginia Woolf in 1929. In societies where male standards are considered normative, those female values have been viewed not only as secondary but also as somehow defective: based on emotion rather than reason, intuition rather than logic; ultimately incapable -- as Sigmund Freud suggested -- of shaping ethical judgments...
...Freud hoped that his mind science would teach people how to love and to work. Like most great notions, this one is simple to express but difficult to realize. Just how difficult is the subject of Richard Rhodes' account of his deprived childhood and struggle to escape its consequences. It is a story of modest dimensions but classic proportions, involving orphans, a wicked stepmother, lifesaving benefactors and years of psychoanalysis. It is a story that is painful to read and hard to put down...
...will rank with Freud and Piaget in terms of influence," he said...
...droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile...
That is sure to occasion anguished edification for those who study the language of Goethe, Kafka and Freud, but it may provide a few pleasant surprises as well. As my own recent and none-too-elegant plunge into the language at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin demonstrated, learning German is hardly the ordeal of a lifetime, but neither is there an escalator up the magic mountain of fluency...