Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canvases are less individualized than the buildings, as if the artist had wished to avoid in truding on their lives. Hopper's own unalterable reserve makes him as surprising, in an age of clattering egos, as a tree growing in the middle of Main Street. He is profoundly "inner-directed," or, as he puts it, "a self-seeker...
Into the Fire. Unlike his three peers, Rank was no physician but an earnest young engineering student who was attracted into Freud's orbit in 1905 as pupil, later as secretary of the psychoanalytic inner circle. He served Freud faithfully for 20 years, finally broke away, denouncing Freud's "therapeutic nihilism." Rank's rebellion took him through many stages. In one he attached overwhelming importance to birth trauma as a source of neurotic difficulties. In another he blasted Freud's emphasis on the unconscious, called for a "psychology of the conscious." Immortality-at which Freud scoffed...
From a detailed study of the mechanical physiology of the inner ear to the construction of "teaching machines" for future education, these men investigate the still-unsolved problems of human and animal behavior, learning, and motivation. For laboratory work is as vital to the advanced study of psychology as it is to the study of any other of the natural sciences. Through the study of animals, as well as mental patients and normal people, psychologists hope to gain insight into the mental processes which govern human behavior and activity...
...Psycho-Acoustic section of the Psychological Laboratories, Georg von Bekesy, research fellow in Psycho-physics, is carrying on a unique investigation of the mechanical physiology of the inner ear. His extremely delicate experiments include the measurement of the pressure changes and electrical effects within the interior structure...
...Greco. Toledo was an ideal city. Saint Theresa and St. John of the Cross were fellow citizens, and their visions made the miraculous an everyday occurrence. In such a time, Toledo found it easy to understand El Greco's inner vision, which triumphed over perspective and proportion to create his own soaring, flamelike dimensions of beauty and power...