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...unfettered pleasure seeking of infancy, where all "pansexual" desires are instantly gratified. "The real world," he writes in Love's Body, "is the world where thoughts are omnipotent, where no distinction is drawn between wish and deed." Even mental aberration can be a form of Utopia, maintains British Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing (see BEHAVIOR). The schizophrenic makes a journey into self, says Laing, that is every bit as awesome as exploring a jungle or climbing Mount Everest. He goes "back and through and beyond into the experience of all mankind, of the primal man, of Adam and perhaps even further...
...related danger is to romanticize and sentimentalize the family. From the Greek tragedians to the modern psychoanalysts, men have known that the family, along with being a source of immense comfort, is also a place of savage battles, rivalries, and psychological if not physical mayhem. Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing says that the "initial act of brutality against the average child is the mother's first kiss." He finds it hurtful that a child is completely at the mercy of his parents, even to having to accept affection. Laing's colleague, David Cooper, calls the nuclear family the "ultimately perfected form...
...Adds Psychoanalyst Rollo May: "Even the growing frequency of divorce, no matter how sobering the problems it raises, has the positive psychological effect of making it harder for couples to rationalize a bad marriage by the dogma that they are 'stuck' with each other. The possibility of finding a new lover makes it more necessary for us to accept the responsibility of choosing the one we do have if we stay with...
...kept busy, which is part of the plan. "This is a four-pronged program," says Dr. George D. Goldman, a psychoanalyst from Garden City, N.Y. "We have a controlled environment, without cigarettes, which cuts down the social-habit motivation. The groups help reinforce the nonsmoking motivation. The breathing and hypnotism classes do the same, and the films and lectures complete the program." These techniques have been aimed at smokers before-but never in a sustained barrage. Now we are the targets-at $250 apiece over usual cruise fares...
Today, at 68, Erikson lives quietly in Stockbridge. Although he has not been a practicing psychoanalyst for years, a steady outpouring of books-as well as the constantly growing fame of his basic theories-has made him increasingly influential. In 1958 he produced Young Man Luther, which helped trace the Protestant Reformation to Martin Luther's resolution of Erikson's Life Stage 5 ("Identity v. Role Confusion"). He won the 1969 National Book Award for Gandhi's Truth, a study of the man, his ideals and the techniques of nonviolence. Erikson embarked upon it in part...