Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literary delight, therapy before amusement. Deep within the volume are less convincing "proofs" of this attitude. The legends of Snow White, of Hansel and Gretel, of Goldilocks are parsed for every psychological nuance. Here the reader leaves the nursery for what Vladimir Nabokov calls "the fundamentally medieval world of Freud, with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying, from their natural nooks, upon the love life of their parents." To Bettelheim, Goldilocks' peek into the bears' house "evokes associations to the child...
...movement, a problem stemming from the failure of Vatican II's reforms to materialize. "The further away from Vatican II we get the easier it becomes to pursue either a shallow spiritualism or to say it's all bullshit, religion is the opiate of the masses and Marx and Freud were right," Roodkowsky said...
Ernst as a nervous, impressionable boy, in constant friction with authority, was in every way the father of the surrealist man: he even read Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. It was World War I that clinched Ernst's attitudes to authority. He spent the war years in the German army, in both France and Poland. When he came out of the army he found comradeship with a generation of gifted, irascible young .intellectuals and artists whose loathing of that "whole immense Schweinerei of the imbecilic war" crossed the frontiers of Europe: Jean Arp and Tristan Tzara in Zurich...
...Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, which later became Scientology's scripture. Through Dianetics, he claimed, I.Q.s could be raised, bad eyesight corrected, the common cold cured. His technique amounted to counseling, known as "auditing," to eradicate "engrams"-negative memories recorded in the "reactive mind" (similar to Freud's unconscious). A person freed of engrams was known as a "Clear." As early as 1952, Hubbard began auditing with the "E-meter," a crude version of the lie detector, which is still...
...depend on data in which the observer and the observed are in the same person. The prohibition was lamentable, from the viewpoint of a fuller understanding of human behavior--after all, who but the individual himself is always present, with a front-seat view of everything he does? Freud recognized the risks involved in self-analysis, but rejected the loss to the behavioral sciences imposed by Watson's prohibition and so ignored it. Through exhaustive self-examination, he arrived at the principles of introspective psychology. Skinner overcomes the stricture by stepping outside himself. He considers only those aspects of himself...