Word: libidos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture starts out as a naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
...they're standing in line. Lurid advertising has activated Boston's libido again, but I predict that the crowds will shrink drastically as soon as people find out from their friends that Kazan has given us the Ladies Home Journal instead of Nugget...
Sigmund Freud saw the prime mover of the unconscious as sexual energy or libido; Alfred Adler made it the drive for power to overcome inferiority feelings. In his "analytical psychology," Jung divided the unconscious into two layers. Within one, relatively superficial, he gave libido and the power drive less ambitious roles. In the second and far deeper stratum, he perceived the force of the primeval, collective unconscious of the human race...
...cent of the women comp of unpleasant side effects. Since the symptoms almost always appeared when the patient became accustomed to the pills, believed that most of the problems were psychological. reactions were not at all consistent. About 30 per cent of the reported a decline in Libido, but about the same number increase. Some gained weight and some lost. But, regardless complaints, 39 per cent of the women felt that their general had improved; only 10 per cent felt worse...
...point of phobia or compulsion? After decades of debate psycholo gists and psychiatrists are at last substantially agreed that anxiety arises from feelings of helplessness.* According to the best modern thinking, Freud never fully understood the essential nature of anxiety. His first theory, propounded in 1894, was that repressed libido (sexual energy) becomes anxiety, which later reappears as free-floating anxiety or a symptom (phobia or compulsion) that is equivalent to it. This, as critics pointed out, was a theory of mechanism and not an explanation of causes. So he tried again, and decided in 1923 that a totally different...