Word: psychoanalyst
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...there's the other angle: the funny lady who actually does ask him to sleuth down her cat. The woman, Margo Sperling, is played by Lily Tomlin. Her character comes straight out of a stock bit she does on television specials and in night-clubs: the astrology nut, pseudo-psychoanalyst and perpetual high-on-lifer all rolled into one. When Welles flashes a rod for the first time in her presence, she cheerfully informs him that "my shrink says that people who play with guns are usually impotent...
What kinds of people become managers in today's well-run corporations? The latest prober of the executive psyche, Washington Psychoanalyst Michael Maccoby, identifies four types. The first is the "craftsman," a gentle holder of traditional values, an admired worker so absorbed in his own specialty -engineering, finance, sales-that he cannot sense broad corporate goals, let alone lead a complex organization. Next comes the "jungle fighter," dog eat dog all the way, destroying peers, superiors and eventually himself. The "company man" is occasionally effective but lacks daring to bring about bold changes: his is a world dominated...
...sexually threatened," says Cambridge, Mass., Teacher Jean Kilbourne, who lectures on the influence of the communications industry. "The image of the abused woman is a logical extension of putting the uppity woman in her place." Many psychiatrists agree that the trend reflects the emotional problems of males. Says Manhattan Psychoanalyst Lawrence Hatterer: "Men's angry and hostile and impotent feelings are surfacing in all these ways because men don't know where to go with these feelings...
Despite dissent from a few of his early follower-, Freud's views quickly hardened into psychoanalytic dogma. Now, under pressure from feminists, orthodox Freudians seem to be giving ground. "Anatomy is not destiny," says Psychoanalyst Robert Stoller, one of the voices for change. "Destiny is what people make of anatomy...
...psychoanalysts I've talked to are uncertain about my theory," says Robert Stoller, a psychoanalyst and professor at the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine. No wonder. Stoller has managed to come up with a far darker view of sex than Freud's. His theory, which he admits he has put forth with some "trepidation": except for a few rare individuals, human sexual excitement is usually generated by hostility. If his thinking is correct, Stoller writes in the Archives of General Psychiatry, "we must bear the idea that sexual pleasure in most humans depends on neurotic mechanisms. It is disappointing...