Word: iconoclasm
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...psychoanalytic circles, he was sacked from his heir apparency at the Freud Archives in 1981 for disparaging the private behavior of the founder of psychoanalysis and for attempting to debunk some of the master's key thinking on the prevalence and significance of child abuse -- an act of iconoclasm that Malcolm aptly termed self-destructive. Masson sued the Archives for $13 million and accepted a settlement of $150,000. Then he made another decision that in retrospect seems even more self-destructive: he agreed to cooperate with Malcolm, a defender of traditional Freudian analysis and thus an ideological opposite. When...
First, knee-jerk iconoclasm. The habit of a lifetime is hard to break. The very phrase "the President's economic plan" starts the facial nerves twitching into the formation of a cynical sneer. As proposals for reform of everything under the sun come cascading out of the Administration, the first instinct is to assume there is something wrong with each of them...
...Armenian born in largely Muslim Azerbaijan, Kasparov touched on disparate topics ranging from Gorbachev to the Azerbaijani crisis to the Communist Party yesterday, displaying the iconoclasm that has made him a symbol for Soviets backing social change...
...Michael "Trig" Tarazi '89 is a person of contrasts: madcap humor and solemnity, nationalism and iconoclasm...
...VIII - mainly wanted to raise money, but with Oliver Cromwell the vandalism turned ideological. The Roundheads were determined to erase every last trace of the image in English religious life, leaving only the abstract purity of the Word, the uncompromised Logos. Ordinary plunder, which spares wood and stone, became iconoclasm, which in the name of God spares nothing...