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...normal .persons took in their stride were sufficient to bowl neurotics over. The foundations of neuroses, Freud discovered, were laid in the sex experiences of early childhood. Upon this astonishing fact, which Freud painstakingly confirmed in hundreds of cases, he built his famous theories of the libido (Latin for lust) and the Oedipus complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

When the House last week pounced on the Independent Offices bill, carrying $1,668,290,340 as recommended by the Budget Bureau, and from it ripped $21,-797,000 (i%), including $17,392,977 for TVA extension works, the House's lust for economy seemed proved beyond doubt. Only increase voted over Budget proposals was $2,500,000 for FHA's payroll this fiscal year. A significant reduction: salaries of Civil Aeronautics Authority members down to $10,000 from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Economy? | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Laureate of the hyperthyroid era was Jack London, socialist and believer in Nordic supremacy, who wrote 50 books in 16 years and lived as strenuously as the he-men he wrote about. In Sailor on Horseback, Irving Stone, whose novelized biography of van Gogh, Lust for Life, was a best-seller four years ago, gives a good picture of London's incredible literary labors, a good account of his strenuous domestic life, a dim picture of the period in which his books flourished. Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post, Sailor on Horseback is brisk and candid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strenuous Life | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...lurid, blood-curdling "true-story" prison tales have come out of experiences, real and embellished, gained in France's famed penal colony in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. Horror stories deluxe have told of men working stark naked in the sizzling tropical jungle, of lust, greed, murder, homosexuality in prison cages crammed with killers, rapists, thieves. Other tales have told of years of maddening isolation in "bear pits" on one of the three Iles du Salut (variously translated as "Safety Isles" and "Isles of Salvation''), ten to twelve miles off the mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slow Death | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moneymania | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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