Word: frigidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something about it yourself, how difficult it is to make it on your own as a woman in this society facing the psychological and physical pressures of bad affairs, social intimidation ("What's wrong with you, are you promiscuous, don't you, like children, are you frigid, didn't anyone want to marry you, etc."), and, even more important, lousy work possibilities...
...hope. Her mother's pain. Her own despair. Are all behind Maria. She is so much the anesthetist's victim that her only sense of being alive comes from "the physical flash of walking in and out of places, the temperature shock, the hot wind blowing outside, the heavy frigid air inside...
...hope. Her mother's pain. Her own despair. Are all behind Maria. She is so much the anesthetist's victim that her only sense of being alive comes from "the physical flash of walking in and out of places, the temperature shock, the hot wind blowing outside, the heavy frigid air inside...
...something about it yourself, how difficult it is to make it on your own as a woman in this society facing the psychological and physical pressures of bad affairs, social intimidation ("What's wrong with you, are you promiscuous, don't you like children, are you frigid, didn't anyone want to marry you, etc."), and, even more important, lousy work possibilities...
Died. Dr. Eric Berne, 60, psychiatrist and author of Games People Play; of a heart attack; in Monterey, Calif. As a group therapist, he observed that people acted and reacted in repetitious, tightly defined ritual "games." After further casework and analysis buttressed his findings, he invented breezy names (Frigid Woman; Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch; I'm Only Trying to Help You) and published Games in 1964. Intended for therapists, the book scored a sales blitz (650,000 hardcover, 2,000,000 paperback). It also attracted criticism from Berne's colleagues...