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DIED. Abram Kardiner, 89, American psychoanalyst who in 1930 co-founded the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, the first psychiatric training school in the U.S., and was one of the last persons living to have been analyzed by Sigmund Freud; in Easton, Conn. A leader in the "environmental" school of psychiatry, which stresses the interplay of the psyche and culture, Kardiner once described Freud-his teacher and analyst in 1921 -as both a "genius," and "a regular...
DIED. Walter Langer, 82, Boston-born psychoanalyst whose Freudian study of Adolf Hitler for the Office of Strategic Services in 1943 was used by Allied leaders as a guide to strategy during the remainder of World War II and was published 29 years later under the title The Mind of Adolf Hitler; in Sarasota, Fla. Langer, who interviewed former friends and associates of the Nazi dictator, characterized him as "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia" and predicted his suicide...
...episode, the Angels were even forced (horrors!) to take part in a Bunny-type beauty contest. Such fantasies might interest a psychoanalyst, but they could hardly arouse the censors. Angels acquired the keys to TV success: a reputation for sex without actually being erotic at all, and a reputation for controversy without actually saying much of anything...
...another front, Psychoanalyst Ludwig Eidelberg made Freud's work seem childishly simple when he suggested that a slip of the tongue involves the entire network of id, ego and superego. He offers the case of the young man who entered a restaurant with his girlfriend and ordered a room instead of a table. You probably think that you understand that error. But just listen to Eidelberg: "All the wishes connected with the word 'room' represented a countercathexis mobilized as a defense. The word 'table' had to be omitted, because it would have been used...
...page, can feel like trapped eavesdroppers to a long and abstruse private conversation. It is no longer a browsing magazine for the casual reader. Those long pieces demand a reader's application, and he is sometimes rewarded, as in a two-part series by Janet Malcolm about a psychoanalyst, "Aaron Green (as I shall call him)," that did not require a Ph.D. to keep up with...