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...homosexual love with references both historical and philosophical. Says he: "Anthropological evidence suggests that homosexuality is neither alien nor perverse." He quotes Professor G. Rattray Taylor as stating that the Greeks "distributed their sexuality and were as interested in bosom and buttocks as in genitals." He resorts to Freud: "Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of sexual functions produced by a certain arrest of sexual development." All this, so the argument goes, proves that mankind...
...training in that discipline leaned heavily on psychoanalysis. He still believes that Freud's view of the mind "dominates our way of looking at man's psychological development." He acknowledges his debt to two other psychoanalysts, Anna Freud, who did pioneering studies of the effect of war on children, and Erikson, famous for his papers on Sioux Indian youngsters. So greatly did Erikson impress Coles that he wrote the much lauded, and highly laudatory, biography, Erik H. Erikson: The Growth of His Work, published in 1970. Trying to explain his own influence on Coles, Erikson suggests that...
...first step toward repair, "Ms." sets out to expose the damage done to female egos by Freud and society. "Why Women Fear Success," an interview with Harvard's Martina Horner, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, explores women's desire to avoid success...
...Imaginative writers," Sigmund Freud once wrote, "are valuable colleagues; in the knowledge of the human heart, they are far ahead of us common folk." That view is accepted at Brown University in Providence, R.I. For the past three years, the university has been offering a unique course in psychiatry that uses the insights of gifted playwrights to teach premedical students about emotional disturbances they may some day encounter in their patients...
After describing how he was psychiatrically shriven of fear, at least for the time being, Greene quotes Dr. Freud: "Much is won if we succeed in transforming hysterical misery into common unhappiness." Alas, the post-couch Greene found himself afflicted with what he describes as a lifelong case of crushing boredom. Antidotes have included staying more or less drunk during his whole first year at Oxford, as well as a famous incident-described in an earlier literary collection and incorporated almost verbatim into this book-about playing Russian roulette with his brother's revolver. After six attempts, Greene insists...