Word: sadisme
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...interval between bell and door closing was shortened to only five minutes, and most patients were arriving promptly. "You shift from one kind of reinforcement?annoying the guards and getting attention?to another, eating when you're hungry," says Skinner. To charges that this kind of conditioning is sadism, he replies that "the patients are going in quickly because they want to." That is strange logic; he seems to ignore the fact that the patients are compelled to "want to" unless they care to go hungry...
...there is also about Deep End, as in Skolimowski's other work, a kind of viciousness directed toward his characters that prevents his films from being fully successful. Skolimowski is interested in effects, not causes. Mike's mania and Susan's sadism are largely unmotivated, so that as characters they are little more than puppets in a savage Punch and Judy. The film's last scene, which is a frightening realization of one of Mike's most deranged dreams, should properly be shocking and pitiful. But it is singularly unsuccessful, despite the talents of John...
...Terms. Despite all the atmosphere of a reconciliatory love feast, the congress's stated central theme was aggression. With this the orthodox analysts had difficulty coming to grips, as had the master himself long ago. Freud at first identified aggression with sadism and therefore related it to sexuality. In the 1920s he revised his views and accorded aggression the status of a separate instinct. He also related it to his theory of a death instinct. Five eminent analysts had been invited to make major presentations on aggression at a plenary session, and most of their long discussion was devoted...
...Study in Sadism. Still, ABT has the widest repertoire of any company around, ranging from admirable productions of such classics as Swan Lake and Coppelia, to The River, a bluesy work by Modern Dancer Alvin Ailey. The company diligently polishes up a few new ballets each season. In addition to Paquita and Tudor's restaging of Romeo, the current novelties include Ulf Gadd's choreography of The Miraculous Mandarin, Bela Bartok's horrific musical study in sadism, and an airy piece called Mendelssohn Symphony by a promising dancer-choreographer, Dennis Nahat...
...Jack Scott may believe that "you shouldn't feel badly just because you lose" and Dave Meggyesy may bemoan the "incredible racism" and "dehumanizing conditions, violence and sadism" of pro football [May 24], but the overwhelming evidence seems to indicate that the team that is emotionally "up" for the game is the one that wins, not the one whose players' identity crises have been solved and whose civil rights have been observed. Those who opt for a career in professional sports must face the hard fact that their highly inflated salaries are paid for by the people...