Word: freudians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tarrant is one of those men whose ambition jells before his character sets. Early in life he decides that middle-class gentility and slightly frayed cuffs are not enough for him. There is nothing melodramatic or Freudian about Tarrant vis-à-vis parents. His father is a good surveyor; his mother, an enlightened type, believes in not spanking children and in the BBC's Third Program. Tarrant vows that he would "rather starve than live as they had lived...
...Snobbery," writes Lynes, "has emerged in a whole new set of guises" in recent years. Among them: the Tolerance Snob ("has a special predilection for getting his name printed on letterheads"), the Pot Luck Snob (Casserole Division), the Great-Out-of-Doors Snob, the Freudian Snob ("I have more inhibitions than anyone"), the Efficiency Snob ("answers the phone by barking just his last name"), the Physical Prowess Snob, the Eternal Verities Snob (Back to the Land Division), the Conservative Dress Snob ("The buttons on the sleeves of his jacket actually unbutton...
...tired for publicity purposes. "Surrealism," Gugel says, "started as an art of the subconscious, while I try to be as conscious as possible." Though he dotes on shoes to such an extent that they have become his trademark, Gugel insists that they have no Freudian implications for him. His grandfather, Gugel explains, was in the shoe business: "And I was always fond of grandfather...
...Greenwich Village, an eager chewing-gum salesman complains that the girls who he thought wore the roundest of heels put out nothing but Freudian doubletalk...
...psychoanalysis a cure-all for the minor ills of the mind? Or is it a costly fad full of humbug? Few healing techniques of modern times are fought over with such violent partisanship as the long-drawn-out Freudian analysis. For the past fortnight, a layman and two prominent psychiatrists have carried on the argument in the Nation...