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THOMAS WOODROW WILSON by Sigmund Freud and William C. Bullitt. 307 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...brief sketch "You Gave Me the Answer, I'll Tell You the Question" Anne Bernays traces her own ancestral past back to her grandmother, who happens to have been Freud's sister. She presents her childhood memories of a Jewish family trying desperately to hide its origins without forgetting them. By recalling her own early confusion, she vividly illustrates the paradoxes and complexities created by the Bernays' cultural reorientation. Miss Bernays has infused the article with a quiet humor which makes her well-chosen examples all the more revealing: "Granted, the Harmonie Club had done its utmost to blanket...
Winthrop House tutors will offer a ten-student lower level Humanities course this Spring on Nietzsche, Yeats, and Freud...
...More Superjudge. Dewart thinks that atheists such as Freud have a point in viewing religion as something that in the past has hindered rather than helped man's self-development. The church, he says, should concede that many of its teachings about God-the superjudge, for example, who mechanistically rewards good and punishes evil in the afterlife-are immature and unthinkable to the modern mind. One key concept that Dewart regards as disposable is the Christian conviction, derived from Hellenic philosophy, that God is to be understood in terms of being...
Suicide is often designed to punish or manipulate others. 'Our unconscious," Freud noted, "does not believe in its own death," and the man who seeks to end his life is no exception. The notes that suicides leave behind suggest that they rarely appreciate the fact that they will not be around to enjoy the fruits of their action. In analyzing 721 suicide notes collected by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, Psychologists Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow were struck by the many instructions, admonitions and lists of things to do that seemed to epitomize...