Word: libido
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marital life. That's easy to understand. And he approaches any treatment for it reluctantly because he thinks the doctor's instruments will, in effect, wreck any chance for its [marital relationship's] survival. That is not true. In the majority of cases, any potency and libido which had existed are more than likely to return. . . . Don't let ignorance and fear cloud the golden hours of your Indian summer...
...commkted to institutions, four did not improve, one is beginning his seventh year of psychoanalysis, one "made a brilliant recovery." In defense of his specialty, Dr. Brill argued that psychoanalysis is struggling to cope with social problems which Dr. Freud's revelations of the id, ego, superego and libido have stirred up. Among such social problems is the utility of psychoanalysis itself. Testimony to the new science's utility is Chicago's Institute of Psychoanalysis, founded by Dr. Franz Alexander, 45, an understudy of Dr. Freud...
Very similar in theme to "The Virgin and the Gypsy," "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and other of D. H. Lawrence's explorations into the libido, "Ecstasy" tells the story of a beautiful young girl in search of an outlet for her emotional cravings. In no sense obscene or pornographic, if treats this study with the frank and simple directness which seems to be anathema to a section of the American mind. Unlike certain of the contemporary dramatists who seem to find frankness synonymous with sordidness it tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such...
...agents, City Editor Walker is tolerant: "Some are so useful and companionable that all newspaper men welcome them and their messages; others are such chiselers and bores that reporters and editors take fright at their approach." Edward L. Bernays, nephew of "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido, Dr. Sigmund Freud," is more important in Stanley Walker's estimation than the Rockefellers' Ivy Lee, whom he considers a hindrance to the Press. With elaborate codes of ethics pompously drafted and adopted by press conventions, City Editor Walker has little patience. "Newspaper men's codes...
Last year Mrs. Mellish caught her husband with a 15-year-old girl in his lens-grinding shop. Mrs Mellish had him arrested. Last week Professor Frost was trying to get him free. But Lens-Grinder Mellish objected. Liberty and libido were inconsequential to him. In jail or outside he wanted to go on grinding lenses. "I transgressed Society's laws," said he. "I must do penance...