Word: freudianly
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...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...
After medical school, he took a year of psychiatric residency at Cornell Medical College in New York City, where he had an eye-opening brush with the Freudian ideas that were just beginning to percolate through American culture. "If I deserve any credit, it's for this idea that I should have some psychological training," Spock says. "It still mystifies me that I was so sure I needed that...
...exert have been left out of most traditional scholarship, which uses the male as a standard model for evaluation. New and important aspects of "women's studies" include feminist literary criticism; history and government courses which examine women's role in politics, the family, and social revolutions; and post-Freudian psychology which accounts for gaps in the Freudian, male-dominated picture of the human psyche...
Hollander acknowledges all of this, but continues to stretch the popularity of children to its Freudian extreme...
...final, fatal moments, Home Front goes as berserk as Jeremy, waving a handgun of political didacticism at the audience, turning the American homestead into a Freudian minefield. Here Jeremy is less the middle class's guilty secret than, in his sister's words, "a terminal jerk"; and Dad must expose himself as a paranoiac patriarch whose home is his castle, moated by ignorance. For the two hours preceding this pirouette into psychodrama, Home Front is fiercely sympathetic to all of its characters. Beneath Mom's lyrical ditsiness and Dad's clumsy evasions are two frightened people who care, beyond words...