Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ulam was one of the center's original members, finishing his Ph.D. dissertation on the British Labor Party in 1948, when the center was founded with anthropologist and Freudian Clyde Kluckhohn as its first director. (Even then, Ulam says now, the center was sensitive to charges that it was a Cold War front for U.S. imperialism. Thus, Kluckhohn--an expert on the Navajo Indians--was apparently chosen in part because he seemed so utterly non-political...
...wrote her rambling memoirs and harbored vague hopes of getting them published as a book. TIME has obtained part of a neatly typed manuscript that is a sometimes semiliterate mixture of blissful and tawdry. It is laced with descriptions of sexual activity and full of almost self-consciously repeated Freudian cliches about rebelliousness against parents along with a yearning to be dominated by a strong father figure. Apart from her contradictory beginning, Squeaky Fromme most of all expresses her adulation of Charles Manson and describes his perverse attraction. Excerpts...
...reason that psychiatry seems less and less interested in helping homosexuals go straight is that so few of them want to, and it is no longer widely seen as the enlightened thing to do. Another reason is that the causes of homosexuality are notoriously obscure. The familiar late-Freudian explanations ("Smother mother," weak or hostile father) fit many male homosexuals?but by no means all. Though some argue that they "were born this way," so far, attempts to find a biological or genetic cause of homosexuality have failed...
...Allen was one of them. "If I only knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...
...main sociological point is that the "hedonism" of the generation which reached college during the 60s was (and is) the result of their upbringing--that their liberal, post-Freudian parents, in trying to avoid repressing their children or endowing them with the guilt so common in their own generation, also avoided giving them any way to define themselves against an objective reality. Decter argues that by giving children everything they needed and by encouraging them to explore and to question their society's values, parents unwittingly led their children to the radical, alienated position at which they arrived...