Word: freudian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Walter Langer, 82, Boston-born psychoanalyst whose Freudian study of Adolf Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 was used by Allied leaders as a guide to strategy during the remainder of World War II and was published 29 years later under the title The Mind of Adolf Hitler; in Sarasota, Fla. Langer, who interviewed former friends and associates of the Nazi dictator, characterized him as "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia" and predicted his suicide...
Frank Trippett points his Freudian finger at 15 world figures, ranging from Lee lacocca to John Lennon, and implies they could all self-destruct because of a "pathetic private weakness." Instead of self-destructing, they have made successful contributions to our world. Self-confidence helped them...
...cocaine high is an intensely vivid, sensation-enhancing experience-though there is no evidence, as is often claimed, that it is aphrodisiacal. For many users, it goes beyond the Freudian euphoria. Says a Manhattan ballerina: "It makes you shiver in tune with the raw, volcanic energy of New York. It bleeds your sense till you see the city as an epileptic rainbow, trembling at the speed of light." Test programs at U.C.L.A. have shown that lab monkeys will forgo both food and sex in favor of an injection of a cocaine solution...
...useful instruction in areas with which they are unfamiliar. One tutor points out, however, that while it is difficult to teach an unfamiliar topic, there is no reason to assume that non-Western or "Third World" topics are any less familiar to a Medieval historian than the subtleties of Freudian theory--a new topic under the recent proposals...
...story of Lisa's psychoanalysis is told by Freud himself. Thomas' imitation of a Freudian case history is uncannily accurate and convincing. It has the same whodunit intensity of the originals, the same bristling of symbols, the same gentle prodding to make the patient reveal more than she wants to know. Though Lisa resists him at many turns, Freud traces her problem back to a scene she accidentally stumbled across in childhood: a menage a trois involving her uncle, her mother and her aunt. Lisa does not accept her analyst's conclusion that she is a homosexual...