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Self-Imprisoned. It is just here that existential thought seemingly departs from the mainstream. To Freud, man was the hapless prisoner of his past. The best that he could hope for in the present was a truce with those stern and deterministic taskmasters whom Freud called the Super Ego and the Id. The goal of life was "adjustment." Hence it followed that unhappiness, anxiety and guilt were usually pathological states -a measure of the struggle against those dynamic and contradictory forces...
...Masters and Johnson are rediscovering a few things about sex that Freud could have enlightened them about 80 years ago. For one thing, they are finding out that man's sexual problems have very little to do with physiology, but a great deal with the hypocrisies to which we subject our children. Being a thoroughly honest man, Freud also realized that little was to be gained from physical examinations, medical treatment or lectures. People need to learn about their fouled-up feelings, attitudes and beliefs; they do not need a course in gymnastics...
...psychoanalysis; of a heart attack; in Stony Point, N.Y. Hartmann's fame rests on his genius as a teacher and synthesizer rather than a practicing analyst. In numerous works backed by clinical observation (Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation), he refined and expanded many of Sigmund Freud's theories as well as placing them in a historical, biological and philosophical context...
...never been popular. The pioneers of research into sexuality?Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Marie Slopes, Alfred Kinsey?were initially vilified. Bill Masters openly acknowledges his debt to these precursors, particularly to Kinsey, whose studies, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), were the first serious attempts to analyze quantitatively the variety and nature of "orgasmic encounters." Kinsey's data were flawed by the narrow range of his interviewed sampling and by his determinedly mechanistic approach to the subject of sex. Nonetheless, his research legitimized the study...
...There is no physiological difference, as Freud first proposed, between a clitoral orgasm and a vaginal orgasm...