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Although Sigmund Freud conceived his theories of psychoanalysis in Vienna and founded his movement there, the city still has few Freudian analysts. So last week, when the International Psycho-Analytical Association convened its biennial congress in Vienna for the first time, there was little more than a corporal's guard of 26 resident analysts to greet the more than 2,000 visiting delegates...
...recorder to gather evidence. Whenever he reported his findings, he was promised cooperation by various superiors. But nothing happened. Eventually. Serpico decided to take his evidence directly to the office of Mayor John Lindsay. Even there he was put off. He recalls that one administrator dismissed him as a "psycho," while Aide Jay Kriegel told him, "We can't afford a scandal now. We expect a long hot summer and we don't want to antagonize the police...
...shocking treatise on the psycho-sexual basis of Authority...
...real point of the Kilson-Kaiser/Sanders-Bey exchange, it seems to me, is not the substantive questions with which it purports to deal (Is the Black Studies program an academic joke? Is black racism rampant at Harvard?) but the psycho-dynamics underlying them. Any discussion of such questions threatens to bring to light the degree to which the brand of black militancy" now popular on campus is purely the creation of liberal masochism, and, as such, a phenomenon of group psychology rather than politics. But we must remember that the fairy-tale about the emperor's new clothes is really...
...taboo against parricide, fratricide, and, eventually, murder in general. Miller's final selection is from a biography of Proust, which tells of the young Proust's trauma at the denial of his mother's kiss at age seven, which the author perceives as the turning point in Proust's psycho-sexual development...