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Stoller, who has been studying gender identity and sexual perversion, concludes that the same psychic factors found in perversion are also found in the sexual lives of most people: hostility, mystery, risk, illusion, revenge and the reversal of a trauma or frustration. "We try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-analyst or other-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal . . . are also filled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others." The difference between normal person and pervert, he feels, is one of degree...
...could be argued that Carrie is, finally, just another idle, if entertaining, exploration of the psychic world, yet an other trip through country similar to that traversed in The Exorcist and The Omen. But there is a pointed glee in De Palma's satirical vision of high school society, an oddly compelling power in his juxtaposition of the banal and the awesome moving unsuspected amidst it. The moral reckoning to which that all leads may be curious, but it is surely cautionary. In any event, the journey to that reckoning is an exercise in high style that even...
...torture tours" are legend. Occasionally the group will give 250 concerts during 300 days on the road. During one 95-day stretch in 1975, they did 88 one-nighters. Last week they traveled through four Western states, giving five concerts in seven days. The ceaseless motion soon takes its psychic toll. "After a while you turn dingy," says Vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, 27. "Your mind and body won't take...
...battered by medical tragedy. Denounced and vilified at the outset of his career. Munch was accepted, even extolled, as he grew older. Watkins also tries to tunnel into Munch's creative spirit, to watch him work and trace his themes of violent mortality and sexual betrayal to their psychic roots...
Love of self is the basic task of life. It brings a sense of worth and immunizes against sorrows, even the death of a friend or relative. Bob Hoffman, a self-proclaimed psychic and former businessman, writes in Getting Divorced from Mother & Dad: "With self-love, death no longer brings severe depression...