Word: libido
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...public of America. . . . They misunderstood, if they did not mistrust, an eroticism so exquisite and distinguished. Better Renoir and Matisse, they thought, and the more primary Freudian reactions of such masters than a painter so intent on capturing and passing on to us the heat, the fever, almost the libido, of a colored fabric, a seated girl or a garden flower...
...chapter on Being in Love and Hypnosis, is a masterly exposition of the transfer of the ego to the object or person loved (distinguished from purely sensual love or, in psychoanalytical parlance, the libido). This transfer is due to mutual influences; absence of personal criticism; supreme evaluation of characteristics, usually to the detriment of outside persons; quasi-repression of the sexual passions. Two people in love, therefore, have absorbed each other's ego.. The author then parallels love and hypnosis or, in other words, he calls hypnosis love minus the sexual appetite...
...Outsider is an exceptional play, raised above a clinical discussion by the warm emotion of a girl's adolescent libido, but perspiring a little with theatrical laboring. Katherine Cornell gives an extraordinarily balanced portrayal, making the proper suggestion of a maimed butterfly fluttering its wings. Her acting swings the real focus from the man to the maid. She washes from the part any taint of carnalism. Her varied, rainbow performance stamps her as the greatest young player of her age. Lionel Atwill is forceful, explodes with the splendid precision of dynamite. But at times he is too conscious...