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...that covers the rest of Antarctica, conceals far more than it reveals. Three years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf started calving icebergs so big that they invited comparison with Massachusetts and Connecticut, and some of these bergs--including C-19, which broke off the shelf last May--lurk nearby, provoking consternation and wonder...
...wait a minute. Let's go back to Frum's anecdote; a metaphor may lurk within. Frum doesn't say what the speech was about, and he doesn't specify what Bush cut from the text--this is only a tell-some memoir. But one can assume that Bush has cut the details of the policy. And that fits too: there has been a vaporous quality to Bush's boldness. He traffics in headlines. The policies themselves are often not entirely baked. A case in point: Frum's "axis of evil" and its accompanying doctrine of pre-emption, which Bush...
...think about who we are. He both explained the human mind and made it more mysterious. One of Freud's key insights was to divide the mind into the conscious and the unconscious: he showed us that beneath the surface banality of everyday thoughts and gestures lurk subterranean caverns of forbidden longings that reach all the way back to our earliest childhood memories. Freud's therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis, was an intellectual exploration of those depths, where patients could confront their deepest, darkest desires. If they recognized and overcame those repressed desires, the theory went, they could return to the surface...
Combined with the culture's incessant encouragement to uncover, treat and neutralize whatever gremlins may lurk behind our brows, this built-in inner blindness can result in a sort of mental hypochondria. We give up on making fine distinctions and simply check ALL OF THE ABOVE. "It can be like medical student's disease," says Wilson, "where we think we have every new disorder." Evidence for this, he says, can be found in the fact that disorders tend to vary over different cultures and over time. In Freud's day, hysteria was all the rage--a problem experienced mostly...
...Orenstein deftly shows us that the tale was intended as a morality fable for the decadent aristocracy under Louis XIV. In a society that both prized virginity and tolerated rampant sexual indiscretions, the tale cautioned ladies to “never trust a stranger-friend…wolves may lurk in every guise...