Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pioneers who staked out the new boundaries of modern literature were Novelists Feodor Dostoevsky and Franz Kafka. Dostoevsky made a pre-Freudian exploration of the grand canyon that separates a man's public acts from his private thoughts-the split in the human atom. But in Dostoevsky's day the social frame within which his split men operated was still all of a piece, held together by principles of law & order and morality. By the time Kafka came on the scene, early in the 20th century, the frame itself was split. The rules and principles of Dostoevsky...
...mankind dreamed more or less alike in its legends and religious symbols, it was reasonable to suppose the existence of a universal unconscious mind-a vast reservoir of wisdom from which these dreams arose. Jung termed this reservoir the "collective unconscious," thereby adding a new dimension to the Freudian psyche. The goal of Jung's therapy, unlike that of Freud, lay in what he called "individuation," a process by which the archetypes and other disturbing elements of the unconscious were brought to full consciousness. It was essentially a religious experience, and a way of life...
...Mechanisms. When it comes to strict Freudian psychiatry, Psychologist VanderVeldt and Psychiatrist Odenwald have their reservations. Their target is not Freud's medical techniques, but "the phillosophy that has gradually been tacked on" them. "Freud's most fundamental mistake was to view a person as a machine, a set of mechanisms, and to consider the psychoanalyst as a technician or mechanic who is supposed to mend these mechanisms when they function badly...
Without Emotion. After studying Freudian analytical methods to fit himself for the task, Cohen still had difficulty finding his way. "I wrote the thesis three times," he says, "first with all my emotions, then with some of my emotions, finally with no emotions." Even so, he left in some very personal touches...
...adaptation, in which hunger becomes the all-consuming drive and the sex urge disappears. Then comes the third stage, one of acquiescence, when prisoners accept their fate and the amorality of camp life. With their jealousies and factionalism, the prisoners do not form an "organized mass" in the Freudian sense, says Dr. Cohen, but merely a crowd...