Word: freude
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...gestures, grins, whispers, employs the full range of a booming baritone voice. He covers three centuries of European intellectual history in his most popular course, shifts spontaneously to suit the mood of his audience ("It's almost a cabaret thing") as he explores Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Marx and Freud. "He inspires an awful lot of hero worship from extremely bright people," says sandaled Coed Regina Janes...
...decline. While some see it as the individual's last refuge from Big Organization, it has lost much of its cohesiveness-joint vacations for parents and even slightly older children have become a rarity. Paternal authority, long on the wane, is being undermined further. What the doctrines of Freud failed to do to father-and Freud himself is now old hat among the young-the knowledge explosion accomplished. After all, it is difficult to remain the fount of wisdom while the junior members of the family discourse expertly on the new physics. There is little force left in family...
...Marquis Xavier de Sade, a direct descendant. It would be impolite to call Lely a sadist, but he certainly is a Sadean, and a doting one at that. Lely hopes that the letters will help readers to "enjoy De Sade's dark erotic paradise without guilt." Freud and Havelock Ellis ("the supreme triumph of human idealism") are cited. Fair enough from these specialists, but Lely insists that one letter can be compared only to "the music of Mozart." In other places, Shakespeare and Aristophanes are somehow invoked. The correspondence foreshadows De Lautreamont, Arthur Rimbaud and Alfred...
...says Freud's description of child-rearing has applied to much of Peace Corps training: "We train them for the tropics and send them to the polar...
...along with one another to keep the government going. Now, Conservative Chancellor Klaus is campaigning against his own Vice Chancellor, the Socialists' Pittermann, and much of the repressed criticism of the past is coming out in a way that would not have surprised Vienna's own Dr. Freud...