Word: infantability
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...issue, abortion is one of the most emotionally potent present political controversies. Motherhood is a powerful institution in American life, and both the "Pro-choice" (supporting a woman's right to choose) and the "Pro-life" (anti-abortion) forces see the other as attacking the foundations of the mother-infant bond...
...Israel, the group toured Yad Vashem, Jerusalem's graphic memorial to the Holocaust. Passing the photographic murals of atrocities and victims, Professor Yaffa Eliach of Brooklyn College kept remembering the cries of her infant brother as they hid in Vilna until at last he was smothered by adults who feared that he might give them away. "There is an unbridgeable difference between those who went to the camps in the '40s and ourselves today," she insisted. "We have round-trip tickets. They didn't. It is impossible to fully recall the horror...
...Midwest are run by the Texas Migrant Council (TMC), based in Laredo, Texas, which each summer sends teachers north to staff its preschool network, using funds from a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Head Start program. Before such programs existed, says TMC Executive Director Oscar Villarreal, "the infant children had no one to care for them when they were sick. They were left with ten-or twelve-year-old siblings who could not teach them very well because they just didn't know much...
...Freudians tell it, Freud shocked Victorian sensibilities with his ideas on infant sexuality. Hostilely received by a narrow and deterministic medical Establishment, he retreated into his own private world to think up psychoanalysis all by himself...
Synthesizing ideas already in the air is hardly disreputable-Darwin and Marx did much the same thing-but Sulloway thinks that Freud went a bit far to create a myth about his absolute originality. Freud once accused Sexologist Albert Moll of stealing his concept of infant sexuality, though Moll had published his ideas on the subject nearly a decade before. When many observers spotted some of Freud's ideas in the work of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, Freud vehemently denied ever having read the two philosophers before inventing psychoanalysis. Sulloway thinks it unlikely: as a student in Vienna...