Word: instinctiveness
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...Karl Menninger, author of Man Against Himself and a leading devotee of the death-instinct theory (TIME, Dec. 12), spoke of the self-destructive urges which, in his view, make men accident-prone, absence-prone, and likely to court trouble with the boss. The practical businessmen around the table found the idea of a death instinct a tough nut. Some of them also boggled over the immense importance attached by the experts to the preschool years in character formation. In general, however, they lapped up most of the theory, and brought up case histories to match against it. Samples...
That table-thumping, hell-raising, commonsensical Republican, Charles Gates Dawes, could have had just about any job in Washington when Warren G. Harding was elected President in 1920. But Dawes, a banker by training and a rebel by instinct, wanted a job that didn't exist. "As much as I would like to see your Administration a success," he told Harding, "nothing could tempt me into public life now, except possibly Director of the Budget, if that office is created-and that...
...generation ago, such exposure would have been tantamount to public nudity. The wearing of the veil-derived not from Koranic law but, like most feminine fashion, from an instinct for artful concealment-has largely disappeared from many modernized corners of Islam, but in Morocco it has hung on to become a symbol of woman's enslavement. Inside the palace, however, sits Morocco's foremost champion of unveiling: the Sultan's own daughter, Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha...
...critic dis missed it instantly as "four corners and a void." Novelist Henry James was more discerning: "The naturalness of the composition," he wrote, "the loveliness of the complete effect, the light, free security of the execution, the sense it gives us as of assimilated secrets and of instinct and knowledge playing together-all this makes the picture . . . astonishing...
Analyst Ostow answered his own question: "Possibly." In any case, he was certain, telling the world about the death instinct could do no harm. But he was more hopeful than his hearers. Snapped leading Manhattan Freudian Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie: "We don't need instincts to explain the phenomena of cruelty...