Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaccessibility would not have surprised a fan-mail-writing friend who never missed her Vienna appearances-Sigmund Freud. Yvette's wastrel father deserted the family when she was 13, and she vowed to marry only a man who would "cater to my every caprice," and that's the sort of self-effacing servitor she finally...
Medical scientists cannot even agree on the time when death technically occurs. Is it when breathing stops? Or the heart? Or when brain waves cease? Psychologists and psychiatrists assert that fear of death is universal, but disagree about its true nature. Freud compared it with fears of castration. Others believe that patients fear dying itself less than their own helplessness and uselessness in the process. Some believe the fear of death is the instinctual root of all other fears...
...Write? Nevertheless (if there is a single word that sums up existentialism, it is "nevertheless"), man must commit himself to causes, must bear responsibility for his acts. Only half accepting Marx and Freud, Sartre rejected both psychology and history as predetermining man's fate; man is completely free to choose between good and evil, which is an awesome burden-particularly since Sartre is never helpful enough to define the terms. But most of his characters were usually obsessed by evil...
...kind of American utopian leftism, a kind which is very sure of itself. Though Goodman has made no specific reference to Herbert Marcuse, his thinking appears to use ideas first formulated by the Frenchman in Eros and Civilization. This approach tries to put mass production, Marx, and Freud into a coherent scheme. The result is a clear possibility for a "non-repressive society...
...informatively as was possible in 30 minutes devoted to nothing less than all the causes and early events of the conflict. The pictures of Gallipoli and the Lusitania, young Göring and old Hindenburg were absorbing enough, but the best moments came in unexpected footnotes, such as Sigmund Freud's declaring: "All my libido is given to Austria-Hungary...