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This particular Zubu is the last of her kind in existence in Cambridge as all those before her will be found under trees on Dec. 25. Mr. Kane himself has no explanation for Bulu's apparent Freudian attraction to University students, but at the moment he is scouring the Congo for new candidates. Zubu will have her bulus...
Injustice Collector. Homosexuality, says Analyst Bergler, is neither a "biologically determined destiny, nor incomprehensible ill luck." In Freudian terms he traces a complicated pattern of the development of homosexuality from infantile frustrations, through "pleasure in displeasure." to unconscious psychic masochism. The full-grown homosexual, as Bergler sees him, wallows in self-pity and continually provokes hostility to ensure himself more opportunities for self pity he "collects" injustices-sometimes real, often fancied; he is full of defensive malice and flippancy, covering his depression and guilt with extreme narcissism and superciliousness. He refuses to acknowledge accepted standards even in nonsexual matters, assuming...
...Freudian thinking has emphasized emotional factors in frigidity. Kegel does not deny the importance of psychic elements, but insists that the emphasis is misplaced. Says Kegel in sum: "We have had many cases previously diagnosed as 'emotionally frigid,' but we found that after the muscles had been strengthened by exercise and the patient learned to use them, the emotional frigidity-if there ever was any-disappeared." In correcting this disorder, he reports success in 65% of cases...
...with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures by means of colors composed of material substances. We haven't anything else with which to love ... The whole of Freudian doctrine is saturated with the very prejudice which he makes it his mission to combat, namely, that everything that is sexual is base...
...girl of 14.) "Without fail," said Dr. Geller, "the marital relationship of the parents was unstable or really nonexistent. In 77% of the cases the real fathers were extremely hostile, aggressive men who frequently beat their children. In approximately half the children, enuresis [bedwetting] was an accompanying symptom." The Freudian explanation: "Fire-setting is greatly related to sexuality and sexual identification. In almost all of the children there was no adequate, wholesome ground for resolving the oedipal conflict . . . The fire is [the boys'] assertion of their manhood and is their means of protection...