Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What has happened to the Letters department? It seems to have been suddenly possessed by a rather unhealthful sex complex. I feel sorry for both the men and the women who have gone to such extremes in their statements...
Looked at disinterestedly the tempest is amusing. Of course these subscribers do not mean all they say and must realize it after they have expressed themselves. Neither sex has a corner on good or evil or ignorance or knowledge...
...called from the Greek myth in which Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother, unaware of either's identity. But Fate, not Sex, was what interested the Greeks who wrote great plays based on this story...
...none. As do all patriotic Japanese assassins and instigators of assassination, Priest Inouye paid stirring tribute to the Divine Emperor for whose greater glory the Blood Brotherhood struck. "The final decision on everything." he cried, "should be made by the Emperor."One decision unhappy Emperor Hirohito cannot make. The sex of his children continues obstinately female. Empress Nagako has been delivered of four girls and last week the court physicians pronounced her again with child. From now until next January, when her accouchement is expected, the worried Son of Heaven will be busy every day with tedious religious services supposed...
...that when young men told him of dreams in which they saw their fathers dead and young girls reported similar dreams about their mothers, he formulated his concept of the Oedipus Complex,* which holds that all youngsters-in some small degree at least -unconsciously hate parents of the same sex, are erotically attracted to parents of the opposite sex. Thirty-three years have passed since Die Traumdeutung was published. Today Sigmund Freud, ill and old (77), almost never emerges from the seclusion of his curio-filled Vienna home. His work has been honored, but it has also been severely criticized...