Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Concession, and there explained how it all happened. Some Japanese sentries, said the General, are simple peasants who do not understand European standards of modesty. His countrymen, he explained, do not mind disrobing in public or even parboiling in a public bath with members of the opposite sex. To prove his good faith, the General offered to take his own clothes off then & there for the correspondents...
...Feelings of sexual inadequacy are betrayed by limericks which describe persons with deficient or fantastic sexual equipment, and by others which represent sex relations as difficult, impossible, or attended by disheartening accidents...
...ANNOYED WITH THE NEW YORK TIMES"), the Japanese. Almost every Monday since 1934 the News has run an editorial on the theme of "Two Ships for One." When he feels like it Joe Patterson plugs some pet idea of his own. Most recent and most screwy idea: sex determination...
After the War, when Victorian taboos were thrown aside, and cries of sex freedom rang in every parlor, Freud's doctrines were eagerly gobbled up. Such words as "repression" and "mother fixation" became a part of the common language. Many people still mistakenly think that Freudianism is a doctrine of licence. On the contrary, Freud believes that self-discipline is essential for civilized living, that there is a middle road between unhealthy repression, which bursts forth as neuroses, and free abandonment to sexual pleasures...
Because they do not believe in the primacy of the Oedipus complex, a small group of analysts have seceded from the Freudian union. Some of them do not agree that men are bound by primeval, rigid instincts. Others hold that society inflicts more wounds upon personality than the sex instinct. For these rebels, orthodox Freudians, whose feelings run high, have nothing but contempt...