Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...articulate, incorrigibly witty, overeducated but extreme- ly attractive NYC woman." A female reader of New York might enjoy a chuckling little shudder at this: "I am here! A caring, knowing, daffy, real, tough, vulnerable and handsome brown-eyed psychoanalyst." One conjures up the patient on the couch and a Freudian in the shape of Daffy Duck shouting: "You're desPICable...
...specific disciplines and fields, examining new and "unconventional" facts or methods of analysis integrating the influence or contribution of women. New and important aspects of women's studies include feminist literary criticism; history and government courses examining women's roles in politics, the family, and social revolutions; and post-Freudian psychology which accounts for gaps in the male-oriented picture of the human psyche...
...title, I'm OK -- You're OK was one of the more persuasive pop psychology works to come out of California during the 1960s. Author Thomas A. Harris managed the intellectual feat of combining the conventional sunlit optimism of the period with a few of the darker strains of Freudian and Christian thinking. The result: a surprising, 15 million-copy best seller...
...basic preaching of TA is that the mind has three "ego states": Parent, Adult and Child, which parallel the Freudian categories of superego, ego and id. The Adult is the rational problem solver; in the healthy personality, the Adult controls both the Parent, who keeps trying to enforce ancient injunctions, and the fun-loving Child, who is the victim of the stern Parent. The man who says to himself "Now you've done it!" after making a mistake is using his Parent to reprimand his Child, who usually feels powerless and in the wrong...
...cannot engage in a contest of comparative horrors. Yet there is about the Holocaust a primal and satanic mystery. And no cheap grace can redeem it. The Third Reich was the greatest failure of civilization on the planet. In Freudian terms, it was as if the superego had gone crashing down into the dark, wild...