Word: freuded
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...Tolstoy, one column to V. I. Lenin and less than one to James Joyce, twelve lines to Scott Fitzgerald, 13 to André Gide, five to James Thurber, one to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and nothing at all to Arnold Toynbee, Edmund Wilson and the "Big Three" of psychology (Freud, Jung, Adler), whose words have become only-too-painfully"familiar...
...irresistible to the College's humorists, who wrote in votes for many curious people. Ted Williams led the write-ins with four, and was followed closely by Senator Vandenberg with three, and President Conant and Harold Stassen with two each. Abraham Lincoln, Father Feeney, John P. Wintergreen, Sigmund Freud, Jim Cronin, William Jennings Bryan, and Mickey Mouse got a vote spiece...
...motion-picture experiment on a relatively "home-made" basis. Perhaps other artists of this caliber will now turn towards the cinema and exploit some of its possibilities after witnessing this independent achievement. Mr. Richter's "Dreams That Money Can Buy" should delight anyone with even a smattering of Household Freud...
There is still some medical skepticism-not to mention catcalls from the public-about Freud's preoccupation with "sex." Certainly it helped give psychoanalysis (and with it, psychiatry) a bad name. (Another reason was Freud's personal atheism.) Like the "Kinsey report" half a century later, "Freudianism" provided a handy excuse for the loose morals of Bohemians everywhere, and a handy club for belaboring all "repressed" prudes and Babbitts...
Oedipus complex. Freud's term for a male's feeling-started in babyhood -of rivalry with his father, and excessive attachment to his mother. (Oedipus was the Greek hero who unknowingly murdered his father and married his mother...