Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs : I felt really bad, on reading on p. 38 TIME, April 5, "Psychic Impotence" not only bad but sad, and mean...
...works are considered, as never so thoroughly before, in an inextricable interrelation. The finding, less surprising for its nature than its seemingly complete demonstrability, is this: Edgar Allan Poe's whole life "was a struggle, conducted with all the cunning of the unconscious, against a realization of the psychic impotence of his sexual nature...
...period of Concrete Understanding, and finally, there is the period of Abstract Logical Penetration which is reached when the student arrives at the age of 16 and continues until his course in the Gymnasium is completed. These divisions make it exceptionally difficult for the instructor to learn the psychic attitude of each of his many students, and as for the student--nine years of work in the same school is far from an agreeable situation...
...Then, there is also the necessary correlation of subjects which tend toward broadening the intellects of the students. The philosophy, literature, religion and arts, and the industry of a certain period of time are all closely connected with each other, and form a psychic and mental unity. This correlation of subjects opens the eyes of the students to this fact...
...classical culture and compares the antique and present German religion, literature, history, art, philosophy, and politics. Then there is the Europeanistic Gymnasium which attempts to explain the meaning of the European customs, and compares the languages of Germany, France, and England, and, in short, all the mental and psychic qualities connected with the learning of these nations...