Word: libido
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...related ritualistic healings in the cultures of the Saulteaux, Yurok, and Guatemalan Indians have certain points in common. Especially significant are the common traits of curing through an emotional experience, with the assumption that the cause of the disturbance lies beyond the patient's conscious self, whether in repressed libido or evil spirits...
...queried Quaeritor as to the value in studying such primitive peoples. "Well, it's valuable to escape the social orientation of the dominant European transplant of this country. Socio-economically speaking, the norm motivations of the Jivarro reveal a ritualized libido only slightly modified by environmental quasi-determinants, you know." Quaeritor cracked a coconut and drained it of its juice...
Massachusetts High School Teacher George Metalious, husband of No. 1 best-selling Novelist Grace (Peyton Place) Metalious, 32, father of her three children, told newshounds that he and Grace have split. He was mum on his reasons. though Grace had once explained that while she was grinding out her libido-loaded book George "cooked, fed the kids, ran the school and never once objected." Their impending divorce was perhaps based on the same grounds that inspired Grace to dedicate her novel obliquely: "To George-For All the Reasons He Knows So Well...
...Freud's immoderate admiration and affection for Carl Jung, the only non-Jew (aside from Jones) in the inner circle, and the man clearly designated by Freud as the heir apparent to the couch-throne of psychoanalysis. But by 1913 Jung denied the predominantly sexual nature of the libido, or life energy, and turned his back forever upon Freud...
Sigmund Freud held that the nature of man is essentially biological; man is born with certain instinctual drives. Most notable: the drive toward self-gratification. Basic mental energy, or libido, is equated with sexual energy by making the word "sex" stand for all pleasure...