Word: libidos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern psychiatrists, Mowrer said, have been a long while catching up. Freud's emphasis on repressed sexual energy helped put them on the wrong track. Human anxiety, reported Mowrer, is the result of dammed-up moral force, rather than dammed-up libido; as this force seeps out into a man's consciousness, he experiences it not as guilt about a real fault or sin, but as anxiety...
...Occidental Girl) she flips her fingers and toes and picks up a handkerchief with her teeth. But she shines in Soul in Search, satirizing the Dark Meadows dance in which Martha Graham rolls herself up in a black cloth which seems to symbolize the labyrinths of a frustrated libido. As Iva Kitchell, hopelessly mired in yards of purple muslin, thrashes about on the floor, she suddenly calls out: "Who am I-that seeks and searches and never finds? . . . Where shall I seek? Where shall I search? . . . Is it here where I am-or am I? Is it there? . . . " Soon...
...Freud's theory that the sick man withdraws his libido back upon his own ego, Dr. Wertham says: "My libido certainly was withdrawn . . . my interest decidedly restricted [to] my immediate situation...
...neuroses and persuade him to face them. This often does a lot of good. The true-blue Freudians have only scorn for what Dr. Brill calls "societies and individuals who offer the public better, cheaper and quicker psychoanalyses." A true Freudian is a monotheist and believes in one God, libido, the sexual urge, as the dominant force in human existence. He regards the school of Jung as pantheistic heretics (they believe that libido includes other drives besides sex); ditto for the school of Adler (which invented the inferiority complex...
...discover what it is that makes bulls bulls. They developed a method for obtaining from some 40 Ibs. of bull glands 20 milligrams of a substance which, when injected into capons, restored them to roosterhood. It was also tried on a 26-year-old eunuchoid male who lacked all libido and most of the outward signs of masculinity (beard, deep voice, etc.). After 53 days of injections, both the sexual urge and the power to consummate it appeared. But the transformation exhausted Koch's supply of the hormone, and the patient lapsed into his former condition...