Word: libido
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Edmund Wilson was thinking about sex. He often did. But in the nineteen sixties, toward the end of his life, his inexhaustible libido was getting exhausted. He confided to his notebook that he was astonished at all the time, intensity, effort, and emotional turmoil he had poured into the business of pursuing and bedding women. For most of his life, Wilson had been a sexually frisky, not to say omnivorous lover. This seemed improbable for a man shaped like a beachball, given to drinking whole fifths of scotch, and capable of astonishing feats of free-lance erudition that made...
...often the news just keeps us artificially awake, overstimulated. Information overload produces attention deficit disorder. Heraclitus said you cannot step into the same river twice - each instant, it becomes a different river. For some time, we have been living in the rapids. Just as Edmund Wilson's libido demanded a lifelong drill of undiscriminating erections (a sexual enactment of J. P. Morgan 's dictum: markets go up, markets go down), so the news demands an exhausting procession of moral arousals and judgments - outrage and sympathy, Diana and John, Bill and Monica. We are all Oprah...
...table. He jumps to his feet and introduces himself, then takes a seat with the ladies, bums a cigarette, orders a drink and spends a half-hour charming the delighted coterie and taking down their phone numbers. When he returns to resume the interview, he mutters, "You know, the libido is a frightening thing." He does not have to add that seduction, on and off the stage, is the actor's stock-in-trade...
...detect and treat depression in the many cases where the patient doesn't tell. The Geriatric Depression Scale and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale are diagnostic tests clinicians use to pinpoint the symptoms of depression and make a diagnosis. The scales test for indicators like weight loss, loss of libido, hypochondriasis, anxiety and agitation...
...into a Satanic cult capable of appalling masochistic sexual rituals. As for his individual characters, there is of course no action for them to take other than to wander off into oblivion. Bruno checks into a mental institution where he spends the rest of his pathetic days numbing his libido with cocktail medications. Michel, after discovering a way to clone perfectly rational non-egotistical human beings that will in a few years time subsume flawed humanity, simply disappears. Such episodes could, under different circumstances, be viewed as truly funny and truly scandalous satire. But posed as the outcomes...