Word: freudianly
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...that both offends and fascinates-which is to say it excites the voyeuristic instinct. There were his Faustian bouts with alcohol as some kind of sorcerer's abused magic potion. There were his Baudelairean rumblings at the back door to salvation. There was also some basic tight-vested Freudian neurosis and a not quite redeeming sense of irony...
Slums and slag heaps, Freudian phrases and Marxian metaphors, the fall of prices and the Fall of Man-all found a place in Wystan Auden's writing. No poet more constantly and conscientiously tried to extend the domain of things poetical...
Under the Freudian influence of their parents and their pasts, they strive towards careers, and in most cases, marriages. Through their four years at Harvard, they change little. "Our data impressed us with the ties our subjects had to the past," King writes...
...what I wanted to do, no social pressure," said one. King stresses the working out of family conflicts during the college career. College is not a place for rebellions, but a setting where students learn to accept their parents' outlook while they are physically separated from home. King's Freudian bent leads him to stress the father-son relationship. Of one student, he writes, "The major psychological event for Joseph in his college years appeared to be the acceptance of his identification with his father...
...recalls his early training. "It was God's alibi. Evil was made by man or Satan. It was simple that way. But I couldn't believe in Satan. It was easier to believe that God was evil." Then, Léon offers an informal post-Freudian, post-Buchenwald process theology that assumes man can judge God's acts and know them evil, but asserts that God is both pitiable and believable precisely because he, like man, is not timeless, but a changeable part of a long and painful evolution...