Word: psychoanalysts
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...interpretation of 18th century English politics. Englishmen had been taught that the noble heroes of Parliament had battled wicked King George III to preserve English liberties. Namier sifted speeches of the period, records, diaries and letters. When he was stumped by the character of a Parliamentarian, he consulted a psychoanalyst. He finally gathered all his biographical sketches into two massive volumes, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III and England in the Age of the American Revolution, which proved that there had been no ideological battle in 18th century England. Parliament was composed of various factions jockeying...
...have known Tennessee Williams and Milk Train's Director Herbert Machiz for years. From neither of them did I get any impression that Milk Train had a religious content of any marked importance, certainly none in a Christian vein. A psychoanalyst has given me a complete explanation, in Freudian terms, of the play's dramatizing the oral v. the anal; a philosophic friend told me Williams has examined "existence" and "nothingness" in terms of "knowing" as opposed to "understanding"; one poet I know sees "the Angel of Death" as a purely Rilkean angel ("a peaceful presence...
...they enable him to get a better job. A specialist in internal medicine, for example, was allowed to deduct the cost of psychoanalysis (he said it would help him be a better internist), but a psychiatrist was not allowed to do so since analysis might help him become a psychoanalyst-and thereby make more money...
Erich Fromm is a world-famous psychoanalyst whose interests of late have had little to do with psychoanalysis. On lecture podiums and on television, in books and magazines, he has called for an overhaul of U.S. society because, he argues, it is maiming the individual and steering the world toward war and chaos. Partly on the basis of Fromm's reputation as a psychoanalyst, many people are taking him seriously as an expert on history, morals, politics and military strategy...
...Sigmund Freud. In comparing the two thinkers, Fromm praises both for breaking new ground and taking a "dynamic" approach to human behavior. But while Freud uncovered the "individual unconscious," Marx revealed the "social unconscious," the forces at work changing society. Fromm came to a heretical conclusion for a psychoanalyst: "Marx is a figure of world historical significance with whom Freud cannot even be compared...