Word: neuroticisms
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Whenever it seems natural, Dickens' weird characters are lighted up with contemporary understanding: Pip's furiously cruel sister, for instance, becomes entirely plausible as a rampant neurotic. But the good old larger-than-life characters-Jaggers, Miss Havisham, and the glittering, cruel Estella-are presented with such a...
One type of man willingly admits that he did it and he feels all set up about it. Such a man, says Dr. Reider, often turns out to be a neurotic who has an unconscious desire to assert his virility. There is also the "Don Juan" type who tries to...
The unwed father does not often become neurotic or insane (unless he was that way already), but Dr. Reider knows of two bachelors who were so shocked to learn of their paternity that they had schizophrenic breakdowns. Dr. Reider thinks that the father's nervousness-and the mother'...
Write Sorrow on the Earth must be described as a "secondary" novel, in the sense that it would probably never have been written if Malraux and, to a lesser extent, Hemingway, had not broken similar ground in a somewhat similar way. It also shows one chief lack within itself: it...
The cover of the new Radditudes is white--neutral. That may be symbolic of Spring or finals, but it also represents the quality of the printed material on the inside pages of the magazine. The stories will jar nobody, and disappoint only a few, for they are almost without exception...