Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes. Smearing pink, red over the bright surface, his violent hand defines her delicacy. In every harshly subtle gesture, sensitivity spins and enmeshes this violence. Throwing his personality into all his works, this peculiar vision of the world emerges from shocking colors and distorted figures. Every work is a self portrait...
...urge to climb to riches and power by involving herself in true-love affairs. Though both characters come to know the deepest urges of their characters by the film's end, opposing urges push them into contrary actions; the frustration of their desires (partly a consequence of their imperfect self-knowledge) which results, limits and ultimately destroys them...
...think we should try to understand those students at Harvard, and others making similar protests against the military elsewhere, not self-righteously condemn them...
...significant effect of LSD is the way in which it makes you experience the self. The acid tripper achieves a level of consciousness of a self quite separate from what he knows to be his ego. He thinks he can communicate to people, animals, and objects on a level of pure consciousness. At the time of highest revelation he is totally apart from the problems, and constructs of his won ego and understands the whole universe to be ordered by a common benign, tingling consciousness that is aware of how each person's ego got to define his desires...
...LAING -- The Scottish psychiatrist whose books, especially The Politics of Experience and The Divided self, if not among the best in Existential Psychology, are at least among the most widely-read. He writes: "True sanity entails one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality; the emergence of the 'inner" arche typical mediators of divine power, and through this death a rebirth, and the eventual re-establishment of a new kind of ego-functioning, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer...