Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born, the so-called test-tube baby [July 31] spent about nine months in utero and entered the world in a manner acceptable to society and medicine. Louise Brown was conceived in a Petri dish, not a test tube, and she developed and was born from within her natural mother's womb. To herald this girl as a test-tube baby only perpetuates the myth that we are entering a Huxleian world of callous indifference to childbirth and motherhood. It's a glorious day for women afflicted with the type of sterility Mrs. Brown has overcome...
...that it suddenly dawned on her that maybe the Russians would try to steal all her boats and in one fell sloop suddenly take over the shipping world. We also think that she had second thoughts about setting up housekeeping in Moscow, in a little flat with his mother, I mean, we couldn't picture Christina washing Sergei's socks and shorts in the kitchen sink and eating borsch on a table covered with an oilcloth, for heaven's sake...
...state. The other day she disappeared and ended up in England for a day, and then flew back to Athens again. Where she'll be tomorrow is anybody's guess. So my problem is, what should she do? Go back to Sergei and his mother and settle down in Moscow and wash his dirty socks? We're also worried that he even might be a Russian spy or something. It would be different, of course, if he were a James Bond or somebody of that ilk, but he doesn't look the type. I think...
...letters about petulant shipping heiresses all the time, and frankly I'm fed up. My advice is that Sergei should go down to Athens, grab Christina by the scruff of her attractive neck, drag her back to his mother's place and make her wash those socks...
Most people are unlikely to find such observations very convincing or useful. Worse, Psychoanalyst Gould applies a heavy dose of Freudian pessimism: every child is born with an "insatiable biological drive" to have what it cannot have, the total attention and love of its mother. The failure to satisfy this drive, he believes, produces anger and protective devices that dominate every stage of adult development. Says Gould: "Mental life seems to have an unconscious goal-the elimination of the distortions of childhood consciousness and its demons and protective devices that restrict our life...