Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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All around Babs people are crushed by cliches. Her husband, an adman, is worn down by the slogans of his profession, so cut off from reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as...
IT SEEMED AS THOUGH each of the guests at Edward L. Bernays' 90th birthday party last Sunday was having his own personal celebration. Over 300 had come from all over America and the world, wanting both to celebrate Bernays' 9th decade and to reaffirm their friendships with him. Bernays, founder...
An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul Elvis, Albert Goldman ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ The Physicists, C.P. Snow ∙ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm
As the son of a physician in provincial Poitiers, Foucault turned to the study of psychology, and disliked it, particularly his internship at Ste. Anne mental hospital in Paris. "I felt very close to and not very different from the inmates," he says. "I was also uneasy about the profession...