Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Normally, Joe is a psychiatrist. But Joe is no longer normal. In order to heal himself, he holes up in a strange pad, assumes a fresh identity and films his sexual and spiritual agonies in a voyeur's version of Candid Camera. The analyst analyzed, the schizoid psyche caught flagrante delicto-it is a notion worthy of Pirandello or Antonioni. And totally beyond Milton Moses Ginsberg, neophyte writer-director of Coming Apart...
...puritans are not got rid of that easily. Miss Drabble has composed her dazzling and anguished novel as a "schizoid third-person dialogue," with alternating sections written as "I" and as "she." "She" is mostly the girl who dares to. "I" is Freud's good old superego, self-recriminating, doing society's work even when society itself has lost its enthusiasm to play enforcer. It is the "I" that has the last word. The closing sentence of the novel reads significantly: "I prefer to suffer, I think...
...Daisies share with Didi and Gogo a fundamental lack of human resonance, Chytilova's purpose has little in common with Beckett's lofty pursuit of silence. Rather Daisies is a meditation on the personal and social consequences of conspicuous consumption. Consumption is here equated with destruction (a fundamentally schizoid position--unable to deal with the world, the schizoid individual incorporates it, destroying for him the significance of the outer world and replacing it with a libidinalized inner universe); the Mary's greedy voracity ("I love to eat," says one), stemming from their schizoid positions, fragments their already fragmented lives...
...primates for his slow rate of development, which keeps him relatively helpless for almost a quarter of his life. According to Storr, the human infant cannot respond adequately to its environment, resulting in impotent rage and fear. Analysts refer to this earliest stage of emotional childhood as the paranoid-schizoid position...
Faithful followers do well to stick to one mail-order magus at a time if they would avoid schizoid tendencies. Often, different astrologers will give different readings of the same chart. It is hard to see what solace or stimulation can be gleaned from the columns' redundant injunctions to "Avoid troublesome people" and "Try to get along with higher-ups." Last week the inane appropriateness of Jeane Dixon's March 10 message for Gemini was good for a laugh when Mission Control Center relayed it to Astronauts McDivitt and Scott (both Geminis) in Apollo 9. The sage advice...