Word: phallus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more important, there are few events as such in Genet's work, and even less power. What he offers are reports of events and images of power: a phallus in The Balcony, a racial throne in The Blacks, and a well-publicized murder in Deathwatch. Thus there are no powerful characters: only those who pretend successfully (the strong) and those who fail in their deceptions (the weak...
...Chatterley were voiced not in court or in the newspapers, which all tried hard to be broadminded, but in the intellectual pages of Encounter, in which Critic Colin Welch maintained, squarely, that the book advocates a return to some sort of dark, druidical pre-Christianity and the substitution of phallus worship for veneration of the Cross. Similarly. Miller in Cancer proposes a new world based on "the omphalos" (navel) as against an "abstract idea nailed to a cross." Despite the truly epic flow of obscene language, which becomes first dull and then comical, the book's real shock value...
...modified their practice as they have seen basic analytic principles, stripped of the ritualistic humbug, put to good use in general psychiatry, especially in brief psychotherapy and in group therapy. While last week's conventioneers droned through discussions of such topics as the "denial of envy of the phallus of God," one of the most scholarly of U.S. analysts gave a corridor summation: "When the analysts get up at conventions like this, they hew to the line of dogma. But you don't know what they may be practicing in their offices...