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...idea. "We haven't passed into a new kind of feminism," she corrected the WHRB interviewer impatiently. "Call it peopleism." She is a turnerr of pharases, a master at epigrams, but not a consistent thinker. The chapters of her book have catchy titles: "The Sexual Solipsism of Sigmund Freud," "The Functional Freeze, the Feminine Portest, and Margaret Mead," "The Sexual Sell," and "Housewifery Expands to Fill the Time Available...
Everywhere she sees men exploiting women by insinuating that to be "womanly" they must fit certain norms. Freud did it, she says, and so do the businessmen and advertising agencies who sell kitchen appliances, jonny mops, and bathroom fixtures...
...attributed in the text to an aging author who some years previously, on the occasion of his father's death at the age of 80, had suffered an emotional trauma, and in an unconscious attempt to elude the consequences changed his address and his mistress, never suspecting that Freud is not so easily mocked and that, in fact, one morning a few months later he would "pee blood," suffer frightful pains in his abdomen and shortly thereafter undergo an ulcer operation only to discover that he has no ulcer, that in fact there isn't a doctor...
...homosexuality curable? Freud thought not. In the main, he felt that analysis could only bring the deviant patient relief from his neurotic conflicts by giving him "harmony, peace of mind, full efficiency, whether he remains a homosexual or gets changed." Many of Freud's successors are more optimistic. Philadelphia's Dr. Samuel Hadden reported last year that he had achieved twelve conversions out of 32 male homosexuals in group therapy. Paris Psychiatrist Sacha Nacht reports that about a third of his patients turn heterosexual, a third adjust to what they are, and a third get no help...
...down the ages have experienced sex, the question persists: What is it? The average man's or woman's answers are as uninformative as the paeans of poets, and not until a century ago did medical science tackle the question. Then even such pioneers as Krafft-Ebing, Freud and Kinsey relied on what their subjects told them - and gathered mostly emotion-laden impressions...