Word: freudians
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...fact it features long stretches of a cult moviemaker laying on what is presumably the floor of his own house being kicked ("doink! doink!") by actresses who also worked in his crew, make it a highly recommended item that's worthy of cult adoration and academic study (and possible Freudian analysis) in "Incredibly Strange" pop culture classes of the future. Take that, Aaron Spelling...
...however, that order (although not the job) was eliminated. A century of Freudian psychology and medical progress was harsh on exorcism. Conditions previously thought diabolical, such as Tourette's syndrome, proved medically treatable. In the wake of Vatican II, many American Catholics "wanted to restrict things to only a scientific way of knowing" and shied away from the rite's supernatural literalism, says the Rev. Kazimierz Kowalski, an exorcist in Manhattan. Notes the Rev. James LeBar, who took up the work in 1989: "The whole thing kind of went down to embers...
...however, that some in-fighting may remain among their little people. Each camp seems to be saying something different. Devona Dolliole, Deputy National Spokesperson for the Gore/Lieberman campaign, chose not to comment on Al Gore's potential cabinet. However, as she was no-commenting she made a couple of (Freudian) slips. She called Democratic nominee the V.P. and then promptly corrected herself. "I mean Al Gore," she said. I guess they're hoping people will forget that big bad Bill Clinton is still Gore's boss...
...dream man needed to earn more money than she did--50% more, to be exact. He had to have a wide and varied social circle drawn from the city's upper echelons. Last, he had to be in therapy--not just any form of therapy, mind you, but classical Freudian therapy. I was flummoxed. Because I liked the woman, I set to work remaking myself according to her outline, but midway through my self-improvement drive, she dropped me cold. I was trying too hard, she said. My question to her was, Why would any man slave for riches, cultivate...
...just in housing projects but in offices and malls and schools) that violence of any kind - including solemn execution - has become merely a part of our cultural routine and joins, in our minds, the passing parade of stupidity/psychosis/chaos/entertainment that Americans seem to like, or have come to deserve. In Freudian terms, the once forceful (and patriarchal) American Superego (arguably including the authority of law, of the presidency, of the military, etc.) has collapsed into a great dismal swamp...