Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guilt. Physical recovery is still far ahead of psychological recovery. Ripped loose from tradition in 1933, tossed by tyranny and war, submerged under occupation, the Germans are mentally still very much...
...they knew that their reputations were ruined? German criticism of other countries is mainly defensive. When a German angrily declares that "die Amerikaner sind auch nicht besser" (the Americans are no better, either), he makes himself feel that he is not the only one who bears a burden of guilt...
...steel ship became a furnace, as fuel ran low and the ventilators had to be shut off. As the carefully measured food ran out, the crew went on half rations. To Skipper Kerans it seemed plain that the Communists were trying to starve him into an admission of guilt...
Cause & Effect. Once she understood and accepted this current of subconscious causes and effects, her feelings of fear and guilt were relieved and her self-inflicted sinus inflammation began to clear. When practically everything had been dragged up and exposed to candid consideration, Journalist Freeman felt that she had gotten over her fear of the night, her mad rush to keep busy, her stomachaches, headaches and constipation...
This physical relief, the author says, was a direct result of the first breach in the wall of fear surrounding her. As she explains it, Dr. John helped her to see that she had (wrongly) felt herself unloved. That feeling had made her afraid. Besides fear, she had felt guilt - perhaps she was unworthy of being loved. Against both fear and guilt, Lucy built up a defense: anger. But she felt guilty about the anger, turned it upon herself, and punished herself with psychosomatic illness (which also served to justify self-pity...