Word: neuroticisms
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Allegory, in his early work, went with the desire to see freshly -- and it would return in strange forms in his old age, like the 1896-98 painting of a fallen jockey whose horse may distantly refer to one of the steeds of the Apocalypse, or the Russian Dancers of...
The final invented character is also one that represents. Bogosian's acute anxiety about the audience. He is a fast-talking, neurotic misanthrope who struggles between the desire to be loved and the desire to be left alone. As he sits balled up in a chair clutching a microphone, Bogosian...
FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME by Peter Gay (Norton: $25). The founder of psychoanalysis is revealed as an ambitious outsider driven by a heroic (and perhaps neurotic?) greed for knowledge and a desire to conquer and control.
The professor takes pains to point out that Joseph's views betray "neo-racism," which "is essentially different from old-racism." In Kilson's full explanation, "neo-racism" is "a twisted-neurotic racist virus abroad among some white students--mainly white-ethnic newcomers to the middle classes--and while this...
What--any professor might ask if Kilson's letter were a student's paper--does this cryptic sentence mean? Calling neo-racism a twisted-neurotic virus, while vivid, leaves the term undefined. Its essential difference from old-racism evidently has to do with those who propound it, namely "white-ethnic...