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Word: monotheistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to the childhood facts behind 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The True Freudians | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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