Word: freudianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same day. That gave the Liberals four of the eight national by-elections they have contested in the past year, and it has sent Tory and Labor politicians alike into their own form of self-analysis, probing whether all their recent slips at the polls are something more than Freudian. Altogether, the Liberals now occupy only ten of the 630 seats in the Commons. But suddenly they are no laughing matter-least of all to the Conservative government and the Labor opposition...
...critics, Karl Menninger stands accused, with his late brother Will as accessory, of having put U.S. psychiatry into a too rigid Freudian framework. To his admirers, Dr. Karl has done more than any other man to strike the shackles of puritanism from the American mind. Says Harvard Research Psychiatrist Robert Coles, whose mother read Menninger's The Human Mind to him as a child: "Karl Menninger has an earthy sense of what is happening to people. In his work there is an encounter between American intuitive psychological wisdom and the European spirit of psychoanalysis, which he made part...
Stewart Smackenfelt seems incapable of doing anything else. He is, in fact, the most considerate character in all of De Vries' 17 novels. An intermittently employed actor, Smackenfelt begins his good works by servicing his id-his bestial Freudian self, whom he calls Blodgett. It lusts after Ginger Truepenny, who is not exactly Smackenfelt's mother-in-law, but close enough. She is the aunt who raised his orphaned wife Dolly, who spends most of her time writing plays. By such tasteful amendments does De Vries remove the curse of incest without seriously weakening the underpinning...
Flying Saucers. Few now doubt the brilliance and originality of Reich's early career, or the pioneering soundness of his linkage of body and mind. His ideas on sex and eroticism challenged and frightened the Freudian orthodoxy. Unlike Freud, Reich believed that mankind could build its civilizations without discontent. He tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and Marxism and made enemies on both sides. He postulated far-reaching theories on the nature and function of orgasm and suffered in the Victorian backlash...
While these letters are probably not of much interest to students of Freudian thought, since Freud, from his side, has fairly effectively kept their intellectual content to a minimum, they are valuable as documents to the man's working personality. Though the correspondence also does not add information that is new, its tenor is further evidence to the fact that inspiring thinkers do not necessarily conduct inspirational private lives. Salome also emerges to her disadvantage: While she expresses herself well, and with considerably more poetry than her more prosaically-minded master, she remains more ladylike than profound. That...