Word: instinctiveness
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...speaker who won respectful attention but little agreement was Manhattan's Mortimer Ostow, 37. He recalled that after observing the violence of World War I, Sigmund Freud revised his basis for psychoanalysis: instead of hunger and lust, which he had previously rated as the fundamental instincts, he postulated love (Eros) and a death instinct (Thanatos). Dr. Ostow made a different proposal. Instead of changing psychoanalysis again to meet the threat of World War III, he suggested that Freud's amended theory be applied to improve mankind so as to ensure peace. His recommendation: analyze all statesmen...
Analyst Ostow was not fazed by the fact that Freud's concept of a death instinct has proved difficult to accept. On it, he based his campaign to make the world safe for Eros. "It is the death instinct that is responsible for murder, wars, suicide and destructiveness," said he. While Eros fights and ultimately controls Thanatos, modern warfare could destroy most of the world's population and culture before Eros has time even to warm up. "If we are sure that psychoanalysis can attenuate the potential of death instinct - and I believe it can - then...
...with a cop: "I wasn't much of a date; I didn't have anything to talk about." Moles & Flophouse. Two weeks ago Fitzgerald and Wilk got a tip that Magrie was on her way back to Chicago. She outfoxed them for a while, but her maternal instinct was her undoing. Late one night last week the detectives spotted her getting out of a cab a block from her sister's house, where her two younger daughters are staying. "She had put on about 25 Ibs., and her hair was dyed black and cut very short," said...
...Church of England's Moral Welfare Council. "It is the church's care that sex should be rightly used and guided . . . Much of the sexual irregularity of today may ... be caused neither by wickedness nor by ignorance, but by the fact that man's creative instinct is being denied its proper channels." ¶ Winding up a ten-day campaign at Cambridge (TIME, Nov. 21) and Oxford Universities, Evangelist Billy Graham preached to an Oxford congregation packed so tightly into St. Aldate's Church that students could not kneel to pray...
Within Novelist O'Hara's chosen limits, there are to be found the expected narrative skill, and knowledge of a sort. The Gibbsville town assesser could not know more. O'Hara has a tape-recorder ear, a headwaiter's instinct for credit rating, and a preoccupation with different means of making love which, if supported by one of the great foundations, could put Dr. Kinsey right back among the gall wasps...