Word: judaeo-christian
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...describe personality but to identify and to help solve its problems. The subtitle of his book is "psychic Survival in Troubled Times." Lasch wants to help people recover a mature and realistic sense of personality. For this task, Freud is not enough. The author drags in the entire Judaeo-Christian tradition as well when he asserts that genuine self-affirmation...
remains a possibility precisely to the degree that an older conception of personality, rooted in Judaeo-Christian traditions, has persisted alongside a behavioral or therapeutc conception...
...tolerable so long as it gets through and so long as the citizens acquire or confirm the habit of theoretical thinking. Thus Lasch, embarking on a psychoanalytic critique of American politics, economics, literature and art, stops long enough to tell us that our "salvation" must come from those nifty Judaeo-Christian habits which Freud's work has done so much to undermine...
Gore Vidal's novels, plays and essays can be divided roughly into three areas of animosity. The first is the author's belief that Western civilization erred when it abandoned pagan humanism for the stern, heterosexual authority of the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy. See Julian, his 1964 novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions...
Graves himself practiced a highly personalized form of intellectual witchcraft. With a clash of symbols and his customary brass, he rejected the Judaeo-Christian patriarchy for his White Goddess...