Word: freudianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wordplay and bathroom humor; his passionate involvement in Freemasonry; and even, in a short chapter called "Adam," his private, symbolic use of a name that was previously regarded as a misprint of "Amada," the most common form of his middle name. If the author sometimes relies too heavily on Freudian interpretations of symbols-" ... the adoption of the name Adam also has the ancillary effect of canceling God's direct presence-Theophilus [one of Mozart's middle names]"-it is a small fault when measured against the book's overall achievement...
...school where jokes of sexual repression run rampant, Freudian slips are welcome and the idea of Kirkland House's Incestfest is looked upon with envy, the next step in the Harvard Board Game d'Amour consists of spurning the idea of companion-ship altogether. Harvard's Anti-Valentine's Day Dances--Friday at Eliot House, Saturday at Leverett--promoted the new-found acceptance of going solo, giving swinging singles not one but two opportunities to flaunt their freedom. Both dances charged $3/person or $7/couple, clearly discouraging the attendance of couples. Both had DJ's with the strict instructions to avoid...
...sado-masochism and trying out whips, chains and spikes, he came up with something even better. Why not force these carefree, beer-swilling youngsters to spend a year reading and writing about some minor point of unimportant and uninteresting esoterica, say, the role of footnotes in conveying the buried Freudian and feminist perspective of the "Lamb as Other" in German translations of Little Bo Peep...
...unequivocally condemn her subject. In the first chapter of D.H. Lawrence, Maddox focuses on one of the author's early short stories. "The Old Adam," which centers around a "seductive three-year-old called Mary," emerges as both an unpleasant display of misogyny and a stunningly precocious pre-Freudian fable...
...college students poking fun at the administration. Or, I might wonder if the artist unintentionally used Dean Epps in this sexual cartoon because of all the beliefs surrounding the sexual prowess of the Black male in American society. I could even suggest that, instead of it being a Freudian slip of the brush (pen), the Lampoon artists and the board blatantly used a racial stereotype, knowing its offensive ability...