Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even he becomes amazed the picture ends. "I don't believe it," he mutters, "it must be some strange force, probably..."On the Forbidden Planet, this character is Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Morbius), but the reason he, too, succumbs to fantasy is an understandable one: he simply cannot believe any Freudian theory...
...class plunged promptly, if not deeply, into Freudian theory. Psychiatrist Herbert Modlin ticked off basic personality types, and told how to recognize some of the tricks of the unconscious in employees' behavior. Examples: a compulsive, conservative accountant may be reacting against childhood impulses to be dirty and rebellious; an ambitious man may have developed from a passive child, a philanthropist from the bullyboy who tied tin cans to cats' tails; an employee oversuspicious of everybody else's motives may act that way because his own unconscious motives are basically unworthy. A passive and compliant type who will...
...Millstones. The official paper spoke of the spies' undergraduate record of Communist sympathy. British Critic Cyril Connolly tried to explain the matter in Freudian terms (father trouble). Lord Beveridge, architect of the British Welfare State, suggested with supreme irrelevance that things might not have been so bad if the British civil-service pension system had been more liberal...
Analyst Ostow answered his own question: "Possibly." In any case, he was certain, telling the world about the death instinct could do no harm. But he was more hopeful than his hearers. Snapped leading Manhattan Freudian Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie: "We don't need instincts to explain the phenomena of cruelty...
...originator of this astounding new system is William R. Furr. Although his Foundation began only six years ago, Furr claims that today many doctors and psychiatrists are telling their colleagues that "Freudian psycho-analysis, and psychiatry today as a whole, are in a class with the horse and buggy compared to Teleologic Processing...