Word: freuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important thing," says TV's Homer Simpson to his daughter, "is for your mother to repress what happened, push it deep down inside her so she'll never annoy us again." Though he may not grasp all the nuances, Homer turns out to be just another disciple of Sigmund Freud. That, at least, is one of the revelations to be found in "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," the largest ever exhibition on the founder of modern psychology, set to open next week at the Library of Congress in Washington. Along with some 200 TV and film clips that document Freud...
...second reason for the proliferation of psychotherapy was on account of the admiration of its founder. By the 1940s, Sigmund Freud had become a cherished figure in American pop culture; phrases like sibling rivalry, the Oedipus complex and Freudian slips were already seamlessly woven into the vernacular. Psychotherapy seemed like an application of Freudian doctrine. No one thought it could be a perversion...
...Freud unequivocally stated that psychotherapy was ineffective at treating psychoses, or what he called "impenetrable darknesses" like schizophrenia. But his disciples set out to prove him wrong. From the onset, their intentions were not necessarily bad. One psychotherapist would sit in the urine of her schizophrenic patients to "prove she was no better than them." Another would bring autistic children to his home, convinced that their real parents were "killing them." Even John Rosen believed that his belligerent methods of "shock therapy" could jolt his patients into reality. But the progeny of these psychotherapists' "good intentions...
...only sustained pleasure in Freud's life was his intellectual work," Nicholi said. But after Lewis converted to a spiritual world view, he was described by biographers as "a very personable outgoing extrovert," Nicholi said...
...Freud ultimately came to the conclusion that `the intention that man be happy was [not included] in the plan of creation,'" he said...