Word: psychee
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¶ Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer squints down into the refracted psyche of a young man who craves other young men, uses his mother and beautiful cousin as bait (TIME, Jan.11). Last week a House subcommittee studying pornography and obscenity in U.S. films wanted to know how the film...
At the turn of the century, Gertrude followed her brother Leo to Paris. Leo was the art pundit and collector in those early days, but he was everlastingly tinkering with his psyche, so that when a San Francisco spinster named Alice Babette Toklas appeared, "soft, small, and warmly murmurous," Gertrude...
Sin has long been an unfashionable word in most analytic circles, but last week the American Psychological Association offered 7,000 members (jammed into Cincinnati for its annual convention) a soul-searching symposium entitled "The Role of the Concept of Sin in Psychotherapy.'' Upshot: the idea of sin...
"The modern psyche, as I am wont to call it," the Professor was saying, "is best with multitudinous problems brought on by modern civilization."
"The psyche has fallen prey to its own drive for security. In protecting itself against the elements, against the harsh rule of nature, it has allowed itself to be ruled by its very safety devices."