Word: psychoanalysts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enhanced "sense of dignity and self-determination" on the part of the donor that would let him "rejoin the human race on his own terms." In ancient days, kings, favorite sons, daughters, wives or slaves were often slain in sacrificial rites as a means of atonement and because, as Psychoanalyst Roger Money-Kyrle once wrote, "the gift of life places one with the gods." Blachly believes that nonfatal sacrifices might have the same expiative effect...
...would rival that of the West," according to Mexican Poet-Diplomat Octavio Paz. In Western pornography, "death spurs pleasures and rules over life. From Sade to the Story of O, eroticism is a funeral chant or a sinister pantomime." Reading about sadism can have a cumulative effect, according to Psychoanalyst Ernest van den Haag. Der Stunner, a Hitlerite journal that mixed anti-Semitism and sex, contributed to the general atmosphere that made it possible to slaughter Jews, Van den Haag believes. Similarly, he says, today's sadistic pornography contributes to a general atmosphere in which sadism becomes generally permissible...
...Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson lists other causes of anxiety: the unexpectedness of the quake, and the fact that there is no place to hide. "Mother Earth was good, reliable-and suddenly she betrays you," explains Greenson. "Parents are supposed to be towers of strength-and yet the child finds adults are fearful too. Home, the child's symbol of safety, has toppled in his mind." Sudden disaster, Stainbrook concludes, "destroys one's confidence in the orderliness of the world; people feel they can't predict their own futures...
Scientists disagree on swingers' motives. Chicago Psychoanalyst Ner Littner feels that couples who swing are incapable of intimate relationships even with each other and use wife swapping "as a safety valve that keeps intimacy at a level each can tolerate." Bartell likens the suburban wasteland to the sterile Arctic habitat of the wife-swapping Eskimo. The sterile environment, he concludes, leads some people to try group sex simply to relieve boredom. Others hope it will make them feel young, avant-garde and sexually desirable. Moreover, swinging "is in keeping with American cultural patterns: to be popular, to have friends...
Love is not the only emotion that makes the world go round. So does hate, says Beverly Hills Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson. Failure to teach children how to hate properly, he warns, is "a primary source of emotional disturbance and behavioral disruption." Without a touch of hate, in fact, no family can be happy...