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...more powerful drugs. These experiments are seldom replicated. Moreover, several recent studies have found no deleterious effects in humans who have used potent forms of the drug (such as Jamaican ganja) for long periods of time. It has also been charged that the government drug bureaucracy has tried to repress reports that have found marijuana to be benign...
...things moved too fast, in a kaleidoscope of killing and death. Generals lied to the public, to their men, to themselves. The press was trapped into disseminating lies, under the guise of objective reporting. Soldiers--young men drafted from America's working and middle classes at 18--had to repress compassion in the face of the war's brutality. The man who handed around a bag of dried ears was only a little more extreme than many others...
...some clever philosophers of France have discovered now what was known by every child and village idiot in Germany more than 30 years ago: the evil of Marxism. Marxist dogma is hostile to human nature and always implies repression and, ultimately, terror. Marxism is not likely to fade away soon, however. Some people will always repress and terrorize others in the name of some far-off Utopia...
...concentrate on the positive strengths of man's ego, rather than on the negative threat of the aggressive id, as Freud did. Erikson's work is full of words like "adaptation," "leeway," "growth," and "ingenuity;" he moves past Sigmund and Anna Freud's focus on the defenses that repress or rechannel erupting inner drives, emphasizing instead the "potentialities" of fuller ego-adaption, attained through a mutually reinforcing and self-fulfilling relation between psychology and culture. "'Leiben und arbeiten' (to love and to work)," Erikson wrote in Childhood and Society, quoting Freud's description of psychological health. "It pays to ponder...
...eagerness to show the problems with mothering--is a two-gender operation, and her one-sided focus on mothering ignores the satisfaction that both parents could get out of dealing with children. What she really objects to, it seems, is her feeling that her three sons expected her to repress all anger in their interest, to repress her desires and ambitions. But children naturally crave emotional support. While no one could argue that mothers must be the only source of that warmth and loving, it is hard to see why mothers and fathers together couldn't find enough altruism between...