Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Consider the feeling of guilt," he writes. "It is fundamental to almost every problem of the human personality. Guilt begets anxiety, is manifested in the inferiority complex, and follows resentment . . . Any religion that is going to satisfy human needs must come to grips with guilt...
Says Hulme: guilt ("the feeling of inadequacy or downright wickedness that comes from knowing that one is not the person he should be or wants to be") is dealt with "at the grass roots" by the doctrine of the Atonement. "If we examine the feeling of guilt, we see that it is really a combination of two feelings: the sense of failure and the dread of just consequences. The doctrine of the Atonement also has two parts: the active obedience of Christ atoning for man's sense of failure and the passive obedience of Christ to allay...
Professor Redlich does not know whether "truth drugs" are used in totalitarian countries to get confessions; they may not be necessary. "We suspect," he says, "that many of the striking confessions in police states were obtained from severely neurotic, guilt-ridden and self-punitive persons. Such persons are likely to confess without much pressure; but even the less severely disturbed persons with guilt-producing fantasies will confess if ... weakened by prolonged, grueling and humiliating interrogation...
...Into Thin Air is a story of adultery, handled with a delicacy and understanding that few U.S. writers have brought to the subject. Author Beck manages with exquisite taste to give dignity and beauty to the love of Ralph and Elissa even as it swamps both of them in guilt. Neither has the strength to admit the guilt and ask Harold Johnston to agree to a divorce. When Johnston takes Elissa to live in California, Kempner settles down to live out a passive life checkered only by a few inconclusive out-of-town liaisons. Only old Mrs. Johnston ever knows...
Crowds jammed Syracuse University's Hondricks Chapel yesterday morning to hear Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, hammer away at "the fallacy of guilt by association" and imply criticism of the Catholic Church...