Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he said he believes in "the basic Freudian principles that everything is basically connected to sex," Flynt later admitted he had "never read Freud...
Shiffrin is one of many devotees of a growing fad known as "past-lives therapy." Essentially, its practitioners take a conventional Freudian idea-that much adult behavior is unconsciously guided by early traumas-and apply it to the concept of reincarnation. Although the treatment has had a following in the U.S. and Europe for at least 15 years, more and more Americans are experimenting with the notion that their psychological problems arose during previous existences as, say, Shinto priests, Roman guards, citizens of Atlantis or even another planet...
...anyone who has grown up male in the United States, driving an automobile transcends the rather rudimentary coordination one needs to stay in lane on highways. For reasons that swell Freudian literature, driving becomes a symbolic, even a sexual act. (Praised be the soft enchantress who likes the way we shift...
...does not idealize the mental institution as a citadel of scientific wisdom and compassion, nor caricature it as a latter-day Bedlam administered by sadists. It does not explain away its protagonist's schizophrenia with some unearthed childhood trauma, as if the condition were a sort of Freudian acrostic to be solved...
...complacency intrudes. There is always an edge of instability, an apprehension, that returns them from the edge of the grand manner to a post-Freudian world. Their dignity is without rhetoric, and in that sense, very little in to day's painting compares with their achievement...