Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which the witness and culprit, Alan Strang (Peter Firth), is coaxed, tricked and thundered at by a prosecuting psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Anthony Hopkins). In a way, Dysart is a physician who cannot heal himself. At the Rokeby Psychiatric Hospital in southern England, he is a skeptical practitioner of Freudian exorcism. He is a devotee of reason yearning for Dionysian revels. He has a loveless marriage with a wife he has not even kissed in six years. He pores over pictures of Greek gods and tries to get close to pagan worship on vacations in the Peloponnesus...
...operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont attacks determinism in any name, shape and form (Christian theistic, Marxist economic, Skinnerian behaviorist, even shades he sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual accountability. From there, he spins a personal philosophy of "naturalistic humanism," scientific, rational, ethical, democratic, and internationalist, in order of presentation...
...rhetoric Wallenberg deplores comes mainly from a "hydra-headed infrastructure," which he labels the Failure and Guilt Complex. Born in the '60s, Ihe F & G C is not a Freudian concoction but a "loose, unorganized organization" incorporating members of "the Movement," "cause people" and "freelance naysayers" that together "came close lo dominating the intellectual discourse of our time...
Nixon's public life began 28 years ago, and since then, legions of political commentators, barroom sages, Freudian analysts and psychohistorians have attempted to fathom his inner workings...
...Nikki knows it doesn't help them unless they pay for it. It's easy to earn money on a couch." This interpretation of Freudian dogma appears in the July issue of Out along with eight pages of photos of Sigmund's great-granddaughter, Nicola Freud, 22, wearing nothing " but a pair of high boots. Nikki, the eldest child of British M.P. Clement ("Clay") Freud, has already been a jockey in the U.S. and a go-go girl in Spain. Now living in Chicago with Playboy Travel Editor Reg Potterton and their ten-month...