Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points to the late adolescent's subjectivity, his seclusiveness, his rebellion against his environment as well as the opposites of these traits--his striving for intellectual understanding and objectivity, his quest for all-embracing companionship, his search for answers from the adult world. In the presence of such routine inner turmoil, emotional stress is an everyday byproduct. In fact, in adolescence (an age which Erikson wryly says lasts "from puberty to maturity"), the psychological mechanisms which normally maintain emotional reactions within a reasonable range, swing so erratically that it is very hard to determine when the degree of stress...
...others plunged into a kind of mental narcissism. A Cliffie described her withdrawal this way: "I stared at myself in a mirror and saw my face reflected in my pupils. In that inner face was another face reflected, and in that another, and in that another...." A student who characterized himself as very verbal noticed he was becoming less and less talkative. Another student spent hours writing in his journal...
...situation. They are meaningful in terms of keeping the case-aide working with the patient, and they are meaningful to the patient, I guess, in terms of the fact that the case-aide keeps working in spite of the rejection, but in terms of curing someone, the inner conviction, by God, I'm going to help this person, itself is not enough...
Another glimpse of Faustus's inner nightmare comes when three of his students visit him an hour before he is due to go down to hell. They look shy and callow, out of it, as he stands talking about hell--which has been in Faustus's mind every day now for 24 years...
...orphan servant girls (Lummox, 1923), the secret love of a married man (Back Street, 1930), mother love (Imitation of Life, 1933). But her novels sold many millions of copies, and magazines paid $70,000 for the serial rights. "What success I enjoy," she once said, "comes from my inner convictions, which are little soul-tapers lighting the way." No story could hold a candle to her own 37-year marriage to the late pianist Jacques S. Danielson. Bedeviled by her disapproving parents, the couple were wed in secret in 1915, maintained separate apartments, and for years stole off for rendezvous...